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Title    The FBI "Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny" That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts
Date    Friday January 18 2019, @11:30PM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the I-was-too-busy-browsing-Facebook dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/18/2318218

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The FBI 'Can Neither Confirm nor Deny' That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts

In recent years, the federal government has significantly ramped up its efforts to monitor people on social media. The FBI, for one, has repeatedly acknowledged that it engages in surveillance of social media posts. So it was surprising when the bureau responded to our Freedom of Information Act request on this kind of surveillance by saying that it "can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records."

The six other federal agencies we submitted the FOIA request to haven't produced a single document. The request, filed last May, seeks information on how the agencies collect and analyze posts from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.

Today we sued the agencies to get some answers, because the public has a right to know about the exact nature of social media surveillance — especially whether agencies are monitoring and retaining social media posts, or using surveillance products that label activists and people of color as threats to public safety based on their First Amendment-protected activities.


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  1. "The FBI 'Can Neither Confirm nor Deny' That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts" - https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/fbi-can-neither-confirm-nor-deny-it-monitors-your-social-media
  2. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31230

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