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Federal agency concerned about riots breaking out in United States Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, November 1, 2011 The wave of civil unrest that has swept the globe over the past year has prompted the Department of Homeland Security to step up its monitoring of Twitter and other social networks in a bid to pre-empt any sign of social dislocation within the United States. Twitter User “Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Caryn Wagner said the use of such technology in uprisings that started in December in Tunisia shocked some officials into attention and prompted questions of whether the U.S. needs to do a better job of monitoring domestic social networking activity,” reports the Associated Press.
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Wagner announced that the federal agency would implement new guidelines that would focus on “gleaning information from sites such as Twitter and Facebook for law enforcement purposes.” Under the new framework, when the department receives information about a “potential threat,” it will then ask its contractors to look for relevant search references using “open source” information. Although it’s somewhat naive to think that Homeland Security wasn’t already scanning the likes of Facebook and Twitter for social trends and signs of civil unrest, the fact that its now being announced publicly illustrates the increasing concern that riots which have hit the Middle East and Europe over the last 18 months will soon manifest themselves inside the United States.
Originally posted by SpaceJockey1
reply to post by goldcoin
Don't think I invented it, but thank you
I hope you're right, but is it going to take a French Revolution style uprising (off with their heads), to give people the chance to rebuild a BETTER system from the ground up again...never giving the bankers the power that they've continues to abuse for many centuries?
Originally posted by SpaceJockey1
Is it just me or are you beginning to feel like you are now living in CHINA???
Seems like the US and other western countries are starting to take leaves out of China's dissidents suppression hand-book.
Here in New Zealand we've had new Internet copyright controls foisted upon us, at the behest of the US Government, so we're definitely heading down the slippery path...
Originally posted by SpaceJockey1
Is it just me or are you beginning to feel like you are now living in CHINA???
Seems like the US and other western countries are starting to take leaves out of China's dissidents suppression hand-book.
Here in New Zealand we've had new Internet copyright controls foisted upon us, at the behest of the US Government, so we're definitely heading down the slippery path...
Originally posted by Laurauk
And yet the USA continues to criticize and impose sanctions on others countries, they infringe on their own citizens rights and freedoms and are allowed to get away with it.
This smells of complete Hypocrisy.
Wagner says those protocols are being developed under strict laws meant to prevent spying on U.S. citizens and protect privacy, including rules dictating the length of time the information can be stored and differences between domestic and international surveillance.