If you post on the Internet… the cops are watching you.

SF Gate reports that the cops are all over social networking sites, Twitter, MySpace, and other such sites, finding evidence to break people’s alibis. You have no privacy on the Internet, so watch out what you publish…

The document, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, makes clear that U.S. agents are already logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.

Among other purposes: Investigators can check suspects’ alibis by comparing stories told to police with tweets sent at the same time about their whereabouts. Online photos from a suspicious spending spree – people posing with jewelry, guns or fancy cars – can link suspects or their friends to robberies or burglaries.

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