FBI seeking social media monitoring tool

[IDemo]

By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, January 26, 2012 21:27 EST

WASHINGTON — The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips.

The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors about the feasibility of building a tool that would “enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence.”

The January 19 open request was published on a website offering federal business opportunities and was first reported by New Scientist magazine.

The FBI said it is seeking an “open source and social media alert, mapping and analysis application solution” for its Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC).

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/26/fbi-seeking-social-media-monitoring-tool/

[bathroommonkey76]

1. It's like Facebook users are zombies.

I recall a few years back when the Facebook 'wave' started in this country. "Everybody's doing it, David" said one of my friends. I shook it off and barked at them about the privacy & data-mining that these types of sites do to their users. Now the FBI is openly talking about watching social networking sites! Sorry, but I am not going to fall into that lock-step brigade.

Obsessed Farmvillers, male & female gigolos, grandma & grandpa all have been swept up by Zuckerberg's creation. It's a very strange world that we live in today.

[SoapBox]

3. Agreed.

...never done Facebook...never will (hell, I've not got the time)...I like it here! I can dart in, post
some snarkage and then run off. I did my hours and hours and hours of "chat" years ago...over it!

But watch...who would the Militia Goons jump on...us. We'll make a comment about the GOPathetic Clown Car and
they will be knocking on our door. FuxNews makes in-your-face comments about Prez O and they get away with it.

[bathroommonkey76]

5. I also did the Yahoo chat years ago

This was before Dateline NBC jumped into the waters with their 47 year old men pretending to be 13 year old boys/girls. Back then I found it an amusing tool. Never really made any real-life friends, but I did get away with a lot of snarky comments. Oh the life of a smart-ass.

[leveymg]

2. What's the matter, Carnivore has indigestion?

As if the Feds and NSA haven't been doing this for more than a decade. Probably, longer - as long as there has been "social media." The real question is, would social media even exist today in its present form if it wasn't the ideal way to map out relationships and data mine psychological traits and behavior patterns that go into the Universal Profiling system?

[bathroommonkey76]

4. That's waaaay above my paygrade. nt

[leveymg]

6. The guys who started this don't rely on paychecks, anymore. They own Proprietaries.

All Honorable Men get to really enjoy their retirement.

[bathroommonkey76]

8. Honorable men no longer exist in this country.

They are directed by these J. Edgar Hoover clones to snoop, dish dirt, & destroy the common people who surf these sites. It's a digital McCarthyism at its best, and pure evil at its worse.

[leveymg]

10. It's a jobs program, and it keeps Washington fat and happy.

The Honorable Men invented this system. It's just a merry game of redirecting incomes, looting banks, companies, treasuries, and nations and keeping it all secret.

[yodermon]

7. wasn't it called ECHELON or somehing?

"Total information awareness?"

[leveymg]

9. Those were other programs. The one that really paid off (for the contractors)

was the NSA Pathfinder program. That's why AG Holder just indicted the whistleblower who talked to the Baltimore Sun about the colossal fraud of it all. Here's a good resource on such things (Google NSA programs Pathfinder):

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Social implications of data mining and information privacy: ... - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=1605661961...Ephrem Eyob - 2009 - Computers - 323 pages
Out of these five programs, PATHFINDER is widely known and used in both private ... through an Executive Order, gave the National Security Agency (NSA) an ...
#

[bemildred]

11. Try reading.

Ought to make lots of good jobs, and people are much better at that sort of thing than computers, and will cheerfully manufacture and train as many readers as you like if you make it pay to raise them