FBI seeking help to monitor social media

Document spells out goals and requirements for monitoring program

So the FBI is in the market for a technology partner that will allow it to monitor social networks?

You mean they're not doing this already?

From a report on New Scientist:

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media sites to better respond to crises, and maybe even to foresee them.

The information comes from a document released on 19 January looking for companies who might want to build a monitoring system for the FBI. It spells out what the bureau wants from such a system and invites potential contractors to reply by 10 February.

You can read that document here.

• Security
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• FBI
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