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Homeland Security Hires Military Contractor To Monitor Social Media

Posted by aaroncynic on January 17, 2012

Aaron Cynic writes at Diatribe Media:

A Freedom of Information Act request has revealed the Department of Homeland Security awarded a contract in 2010 to General Dynamics’ Advanced Information Systems in order to provide constant surveillance of social media, according to The Washington Post.

GD Information War

The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed the request, and according to a training manual that was among the documents they received, DHS engaged in monitoring comments on Facebook, Twitter and blogs to obtain public sentiment on a proposed transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a town in Michigan. The $11 million contract awarded to General Dynamics is expected to produce “reports on DHS, Components, and other Federal Agencies: positive and negative reports on FEMA, CIA, CBP, ICE, etc. as well as organizations outside the DHS,” according to Computer World.

An unnamed senior DHS official denied any such snooping or out of bounds monitoring and said the training manual is no longer in use. John Cohen, a senior counterterrorism adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Post he hadn’t seen any reports on negative views of a governmental agency and that reports of this nature “would not be the type of reporting I would consider helpful.”

Read the full post at Diatribe Media.

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  • emperorreagan

    At least it’s not Dyncorp – they would have a side business pimping 8 year olds on facebook.

  • Pb

    If this bothers you so much, go on and get the fuck off the internet.

  • Antifascist

    The only thing more troublesome than how fascism has spread across the land like a grotesque plague is the number of obedient, boot-licking lapdogs like yourself who champion the various machinations of the amerikan police $tate. Evil people attract the weak willed.

  • Nunzio X

    “I pledge allegiance, to the ‘authorities,’ of whom I have komplete trust. One data bank, under a future dictatorship, imminently divisible, storing evidence to be used in my upcoming ‘trial’.”

  • Mamagriff50

    I have been telling people to be careful what you post on facebook, they’re watching you. Now maybe they will listen…..Because if they can they will use it against you , SOPA!!!!

  • Pb

    Wrong. 

    People post their personal info and thoughts on a public channel in a public network and then complain that there are devices out there that are recording, indexing, and analyzing this data.  Get the fuck off the Internet if you can’t figure out how to use it properly and responsibly.

  • Pb

    Your IP address along with your subversive bullshit attitude has been recorded.  Thank you for your participation.

  • Nunzio X

    It wasn’t me. It was someone using my computer without my knowledge.

    Hey, wait—what are you doing with that electric drill and those hot irons? How come you’re attaching those electrodes to that battery—–

  • Anonymous

    .sec verif upsup
    .rectify malqouted
    .ref ‘trial’
    .fullwise ‘reformat goodthink’
    .

  • Mr Willow

    The only people who would want to record, index, and analyze all of the information on Twitter, Facebook, and personal blogs, are either those that wish to control what is said—so they scan everything and pick out things they feel are damaging—while at the same time build a consensus for their own benefit to discover ways in which those speaking may be appealed to (think of it as one big, continuous focus-group), or they are those who fear a rebellion and are looking for battle-tactics. 

    The internet began to be privatized in the 1990’s, and since then those that own the pieces have been slowly increasing their breadth of reconnaissance and control of what was before an entirely public domain and entity (http://www.governingwithcode.org/journal_articles/pdf/Backbone.pdf ). Since our government has privatized as well, the media companies that own the internet can now (if they wanted to) make it a felony to speak poorly of them on the internet. 

    Big Brother is watching.

  • http://twitter.com/anarcho anarcho

    Record this,  time is short – you are all going down…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-vkSO6mS9E