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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 15 2019, @10:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the broader-picture dept.

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The FBI plans more social media surveillance

The FBI wants to gather more information from social media. Today, it issued a call for contracts for a new social media monitoring tool. According to a request-for-proposals (RFP), it's looking for an "early alerting tool" that would help it monitor terrorist groups, domestic threats, criminal activity and the like.

The tool would provide the FBI with access to the full social media profiles of persons-of-interest. That could include information like user IDs, emails, IP addresses and telephone numbers. The tool would also allow the FBI to track people based on location, enable persistent keyword monitoring and provide access to personal social media history. According to the RFP, "The mission-critical exploitation of social media will enable the Bureau to detect, disrupt, and investigate an ever growing diverse range of threats to U.S. National interests."

But a tool of this nature is likely to raise a few red flags, despite the FBI's call for "ensuring all privacy and civil liberties compliance requirements are met." The government doesn't have the best track record with regard to social media surveillance. Early this year, the ACLU sued the government over its use of social media surveillance of immigrants, and the Trump administration has proposed allowing officials to snoop on the social media accounts of Social Security disability recipients.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 15 2019, @01:18PM (3 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday July 15 2019, @01:18PM (#867169) Journal

    Gaaark plans same social media presence: zero.

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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Monday July 15 2019, @01:51PM (2 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Monday July 15 2019, @01:51PM (#867181) Journal

    That's what I was going to say. I would plan for less social media, but I'm already at zero too.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday July 15 2019, @06:24PM (1 child)

      by Freeman (732) on Monday July 15 2019, @06:24PM (#867272) Journal

      Social Media isn't defined as "Facebook" or "MySpace" or InsertCoolThingHere. Social Media would include such things as SoylentNews. Not that SoylentNews isn't cool, but it's not "TheCoolThing".

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 15 2019, @08:18PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 15 2019, @08:18PM (#867311)

        SN would be proportionately more interest to TLA, given it allows AC comments.