U.S. intelligence agencies may track blogs

[wyldwolf]

Some blogs are whimsical and deal with "soft" subjects. Others, though, are cutting edge in delivering information and opinion.


As a result, some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information. This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of what's reported in some blogs is questionable.


Still, a panel of folks who work in the U.S. intelligence field - some of them spies or former spies - discussed this month at a conference in Washington the idea of tracking blogs.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1471&ncid=1471&e=4&u=/ibd/20040427/bs_ibd_ibd/2004427tech

[Hornito]

1. Dollars to donuts it's already being done.....

n/t

[frank frankly]

2. under the guise of research...

we should all assume we are being watched

and we should not let it affect our words.

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. We should care...

how lobg before the gulags are open?