Department Of Homeland Security To Step Up Monitoring Of Twitter And Other Social Network Sites

[DeSwiss]

Source: Daily Mail

Department Of Homeland Security To Step Up Monitoring Of Twitter And Other Social Network Sites


'Newly emerging issue': Undersecretary
Caryn Wagner spoke at the National
Symposium on Homeland Security on
Monday

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:25 PM on 1st November 2011

The wave of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East that have overturned three governments in the past year have prompted the U.S. government to start developing guidelines for culling intelligence from Twitter and other social media networks.

Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Caryn Wagner said the use of such technology in uprisings that started in December in Tunisia shocked some officials into attention. It prompted questions of whether the U.S. needs to do a better job of monitoring domestic social networking activity. She said: ''We're still trying to figure out how you use things like Twitter as a source. How do you establish trends and how do you then capture that in an intelligence product?''

Wagner said the department is establishing guidelines on gleaning information from sites such as Twitter and Facebook for law enforcement purposes, the Associated Press reports. Miss Wagner says those protocols are being developed under strict laws meant to prevent spying on U.S. citizens and protect privacy, including rules dictating the length of time the information can be stored and differences between domestic and international surveillance.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056140/Homeland-Security-step-monitoring-Twitter-social-network-sites.html

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And apparently it will.......

DeSwiss



''Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an
exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.'' ~John Steinbeck

[Speck Tater]

1. She reminds me of Dolores Umbridge.

For the muggles among us: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Dolores_Umbridge

[Matariki]

11. +1

beat me to it. uncanny resemblance!

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Exactly what I thought, too.

[Defectata]

20. I was just googling that myself...

ironic, isn't it?

[Ship of Fools]

2. Just the beginning.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. Oh it's been going on for a long time. We're just witnessing the end-game.

Just like a python - you exhale, they tighten. You exhale again, they tighten some more. Before you know it, you can't breathe.

[RKP5637]

3. That's the message I get when I read this stuff. The 1% plans to suppress Americans

into compliance and prosecute where needed. Steinbeck's statement is so appropriate. I wouldn't be surprised to see the return of the Joseph McCarthy era, you know, to protect the temporarily embarrassed millionaires and route out those supporting a democracy.

[hootinholler]

4. ''We're still trying to figure out how you use things like Twitter"

There a much better quote. :P

Especially if they don't know how to identify a trend.

[IDemo]

5. "strict laws meant to prevent spying on U.S. citizens and protect privacy"

Yeah...that's the ticket!

[nc4bo]

14. That line did it for me too.

Between this announcement and the new emergency broadcast alert test, the harsh crack down on the violent protesters who really aren't violent at all, the austerity measures, people actually waking up and understanding what's really going on in this country - it's all enough to scare the bejeezus out of me.

I was chatting to someone today and said I thought things were really weird and scary during the primary season and '08 GE campaign but it's getting so much worse.

[chelsea0011]

6. The Onion Network had the story first

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/

[DeSwiss]

8. Yep.

Although I do try to avoid joining organizations that were funded by former members of DARPA, the NSA, the CIA. You know, your basic police state agencies.

- Some people think I'm overreacting.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G_gPhU&feature=player_detailpage#t=110s">Do You Have A Facebook?

[lovuian]

7. Good Luck on that honey

''We're still trying to figure out how you use things like Twitter as a source. How do you establish trends and how do you then capture that in an intelligence product?''

Your so behind the curve ....and how many Billions are you going to pay to keep it in check

It is inconceivable

[avaistheone1]

9. Yuck.

:puke: :puke:

[defendandprotect]

10. Why not? Isn't that what a fascist state does?

[Matariki]

12. A non-centralized alternative to Twitter needs to happen

something that can't be shut down.

[nc4bo]

13. "protocols are being developed under strict laws meant to prevent spying on U.S. citizens

and protect privacy."

:rofl: So The Department of The Homeland is going to protect us from outsiders spying and invading our privacy while THEY invade it?? :rofl:

I'm overwhelmed. Really I am.

[AntiFascist]

16. This could replace al Qaida as an intelligence tool....

popular uprising? Send in the drones.

[Blue_Tires]

17. they just wanna know when al-Qaida is throwing their next beer bash

[queerart]

19. Does ANYONE Really Believe......

That they are going to just start doing this???


If you doubt they have not been doing it all along....


Then you will believe me when I tell you...... my farts smell like vanilla jasmine.....


... and here is another article on government spying..... (an old one I might add).... all of this is nothing new.. they have been doing it for a long time.... the government is just bold enough now to piss on your shoes, and not flinch if you are watching...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/att-doj-foia/

[Kaleko]

21. Exactly.