The CIA is Monitoring Your Tweets
The CIA has dumped money into a firm that specializes in monitoring social media.
Wired's Danger Room is claiming an exclusive scoop on a major investment made by the CIA. The article reports that the government has dumped a huge load of money into a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. This will give the CIA the resources to read blog posts, keep track of Twitter updates, or whatever is publicly available on the Internet.
Called Visible Technologies, the company is already crawling over one million websites each day for various companies. Their customers thus receive customized, real-time feeds on what's said and done on these websites, apparently based on a series of keywords. Current clients include Dell, AT&T, Verizon, Microsoft, Hormel, and more.
In-Q-Tel, the purchasing arm of the CIA that funded Visible Technologies, wants the company to keep track of foreign social media and provide an early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally. However, Wired points out that such a tool could be pointed internally, focusing on domestic bloggers or tweeters.
Visible Tech's chief officer Dan Vetras told Wired that the CIA is now an "end customer" thanks the the investment made by In-Q-Tel. He said that more government clients are "now on the horizon," with one just landing a deal in the last few days.
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Now I get it. That's why the increased capacities in HDD, SSD and Blue disks is all about.
Are you monitoring this thread?
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unless it gives them the ability to read private information, then whats the issue?
People who tweet shouldnt be stupid and put private/sensitive data on an open public website.
About my previous comment, leading spaces seem to be deleted.
Can we have a preview feature too? (the edit feature has been asked so many times before)
the headline is far too long.
"The CIA is Monitoring."
There fixed it.
nothing to see here
There also a conspiracy going on but you already know that didn't you . Now to deal with the little man in a white coat running around my brain.
PS.
So whatif the cia is doing that. THIS SITE HAS 7 BUILD IN TRACKER FOLLOWING YOUR WEB SURF HABBIT ACCORDING TO one of my fire fox plugs ins.
People who tweet shouldnt be stupid and put private/sensitive data on an open public website.
This is twitter users we're talking about here...
What? The NSA didn't want to share?
Why does everything in this world always end up as an invasion of privacy or becomes a tool of advertisers?
hehe, key words is the trick, then lets see what they make of BOMB STRAPPED TERRORIST GUN SMUGGLING DRUG DEALING COKE ADDICT PLANE HIGH JACKER!
I think they might pick up on that... Gosh!
So this is what they mean by competition. CIA competing with the NSA for the same job. Oh wait, sorry the CIA is only doing for "..keep track of foreign social media.." So that allows the NSA to do it for domestic. That's if you can believe either one of them. Well I'm on the band wagon with all the gun running, kilo laden, airplane flying, strapped for war comments.
"1984. Yeah right. Owell is here now and living large" --Hackers
"WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" --1984
CIA: "All your Tweets are belongs to us"
Seems like a nice waste of tax dollars and internet bandwidth. Im not sure but I don't think terrorists will be publicly bloging their attacks. I don't think they are that dumb. Apparently who ever thought of this is dumber than a terrorist, and they work for us, sh*t!
"Seems like a nice waste of tax dollars" - welcome to America bro, it's all they do!!
So this is what they mean by competition. CIA competing with the NSA for the same job. Oh wait, sorry the CIA is only doing for "..keep track of foreign social media.." So that allows the NSA to do it for domestic. That's if you can believe either one of them. Well I'm on the band wagon with all the gun running, kilo laden, airplane flying, strapped for war comments."1984. Yeah right. Owell is here now and living large" --Hackers"WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" --1984
Be careful with 1984. Big brother can delete it.
... so... what else is new?
It does seem like a waste of tax dollars, but there are criminals dumb enough to post up on facebook like that guy in Mexico who gave away his location when there was a warrant out for his arrest, now he's in a Mexican jail cell waiting to be sent back to the US for sentencing.
Besides, what privacy do you expect when you post on a public website that you don't own?
im pretty sure this is part of the investigation on tall the tweeters that are selling research chemicals as legal Ecstasy and so on.
I actually think this is not a bad way to monitor the population. what's better than reading what everyone is in reality reporting to the world. Then again, we can all agree that most of those tweets will be about what breakfast somebody ate.
This isn't any news they monitor everything.
Not surprised or concerned
I have expectation of privacy when I post something publically.
I have no expectation when I use a work/school network/computer, and others should have no expectation of privacy when they use my network/computer. (Though I use to monitor usage, I stopped when I realized how much porn a single computer can go through...)
I actually think this is not a bad way to monitor the population. what's better than reading what everyone is in reality reporting to the world. Then again, we can all agree that most of those tweets will be about what breakfast somebody ate.
I wish that wasn't true...
I had a Jamaican Patty with a 1L of Coke by the way, and it was awesome.