FBI wants help developing a tool to monitor social media

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FBI wants help developing a tool to monitor social media
By Christopher White

People like to share everything on social media, and that apparently includes the crimes they commit. The Guardian reports that because of our love of sharing, the FBI is working on building a tool that will allow them to monitor sites like Twitter and Facebook more effectively in order to help fight crime.

By decoding the publically posted social media messages -- ?clapped him off the surfboard? is code for shooting the opposition, for example -- law enforcement is able to identify criminals. According to the report, the FBI recently arrested over ?40 members of two feuding New York gangs,? and social media was a big part of the process.

Overall, the tool that the FBI is hoping to build doesn?t sound very ominous. It includes requests for automated searches of not only social media but also legitimate news sources like Fox News and CNN, automated alerting when certain conditions are met, and mapping capability that includes not only terrorist information but also weather, embassy, traffic, and the like.

If you?re interested in knowing more, the FBI has posted a 12 page Request for Information (RFI) detailing all of the requirements of the requested system.

ShareShiz Reviewed by ShareShiz on 27th Jan 2012. FBI wants help developing a tool to monitor social media FBI wants help developing a tool to monitor social media By Christopher White Rating: 5

[cvrle77]

They are REALLY attacking on all fields to cut off privacy on the internet...

This is one of the things they are preparing when ACTA/SOPA comes in power.

We will either fight, or loose internet as it is, and get some monstruos advertising platform.

[mintcold]

Don't these guys have something else to play with ?

Wish laden was never captured and gadaffi was still alive , at least it would have kept these smart asses busy with it ...

[WDF]

They already sniff emails for words they select so this is not a surprise. They intercept all sorts of VOIP conversations also, we know this from some of the press releases in the MU case. The laws protecting individual privacy on the internet are not as strong as say a wired telephone and in most cases does not require a court order or warrant to perform surveillance.

[Music_Machine]

Don't these guys have something else to play with ?

Wish laden was never captured and gadaffi was still alive , at least it would have kept these smart asses busy with it ...

I totally agree with you. They have not another player to play with....

We need another enemy to the united states now LOL...

Please if you are a terrorist, please let me know...

First the filehost and now facebook and twitter???... what a crap

This is a war now of the freedom of internet and we going to fight now.

[Daniel]

Do we really think that terrorists are going to be coordinating things via FB?

It's like that old joke, what was Bin Laden's last FB entry?

"BRB, someone's at the door"

*Seal Team 6 likes this"

[se7en0n3]

I guess they're bored and want to expand their horizon.

[foxman]

Dont they have to catch drug dealers on the US-mexico border and stuff, they have lotsa other work to do...

[upnorth]

Damn FBI! Always stealing things that don't belong to them and now even from CIA.


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[downote]

lol so next is FBI search engine and FBI social