It's not spying if it's information-gathering
"...Sullivan's boss made an angry call to the White House to complain about intelligence agents using Facebook as a conduit for spying on people."
Irony, hypocrisy or just taking the piss?
A couple of weeks ago Facebook scheduled a press powwow with its chief security officer Joe Sullivan to discuss defenses for the social network and its users. Then, a week later, Sullivan's boss made an angry call to the White House to complain about intelligence agents using Facebook as a conduit for spying on people. "I don’ …
Just using VPN would be a big step up from what they have now.
Anyway, NSA can surely just come through the front door and get access to anything they want. They don't have to crawl around splicing cables and getting dirty - they just hand FB a note saying "record everything and give it to us", and FB just delivers the data on the media of their chhosing.