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Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets | Danger Room | Wired.com
by Decius at 4:42 pm EDT, Oct 19, 2009 |
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.
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RE: US Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
by noteworthy at 9:24 pm EDT, Oct 19, 2009 |
Wired: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.
Decius, in March 2009: What you tell Google you've told the government.
Decius, in February 2009: The ship has already sailed on the question of whether or not it's reasonable for the government to collect evidence about everyone all the time so that it can be used against them in court if someone accuses them of a crime or civil tort.
Noam Cohen's friend, in February 2009: Privacy is serious. It is serious the moment the data gets collected, not the moment it is released.
Decius, in March 2009: We are very close to the point where the 4th amendment will be an anachronism - a technicality that has very little impact on everyday life - and a radical reconsideration will be necessary in order to re-establish it.
Decius, in August 2008: Don't worry about privacy ... privacy is dead ... there's no privacy ... just more databases ... No consequences, no whammies, money. Money for me ... Money for me, databases for you.
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