Homeland Security snoops on policy debates

[CSORuger]

A 2011 Department of Homeland Security manual instructs analysts to monitor public debates of government policy on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

That runs counter to the agency's claim that it monitors social networks only to gain data about potential attacks on the U.S. You never know who is looking at your social media.

I have never use Facebook or Twitter, only because I am to old to understand the need. That being said, Why do you think Homeland Security, needs to monitor public debates of goverment policy? Are they just playing it safe or is there a more sinister plot afoot? What do they do with all that data?

 

[J_Wales]

DHS KMA

 

[CSORuger]

DHS KMA

Sorry , what does this mean?

 

[Bobby]

DHS KMA

Just a guess on my part but maybe this: Department of Homeland Security Kiss My.........? You finish the rest!

 

[ZombieApocolypse]

Link?

 

[rambone]

Here's something pretty close:


FBI releases plans to monitor social networks

‎"The document also suggests that the FBI thinks it can use social media to peer into the future. It notes that agents need to use social media to "[p]redict likely developments in the situation or future actions taken by bad actors (by conducting, [sic] trend, pattern, association, and timeline analysis)"."

 

[iwearcowboyboots]

Link?

I thought this was old news. Articles pop up about this around times of disasters and major events, but they also announce around election times that DHS are monitoring again.

Here is an article from 2009

It doesn't matter though because your neighbors already reported you.

 

[rambone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Iu37HRG_I

 

[serpicostraight]

hey dhs im holding up five fingers its camouflaged but theres one in there for you.

 

[rooster3654]

Public debate on policy is good for democracy. It is from similar debates many years ago that the idea for our county was formed.

 

[ZombieApocolypse]

Public debate on policy is good for democracy. It is from similar debates many years ago that the idea for our county was formed.

Whats not good for democracy is getting labled a terrorist or militant because of your stance on a political debate

 

[HeadlessRoland]

I would merely ask anyone who wonders why this is relevant to re-read the Declaration of Independence, line by line, and see how many violations the current administration racks up against its favor.

 

[RockofStrength]

The information is public on Facebook, Myspace, etc to everyone, including the government. They don't just monitor the political debates, they monitor every bit that they can get their hands on.

 

[Gabriel]

A 2011 Department of Homeland Security manual instructs analysts to monitor public debates of government policy on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

If you don't want what you're saying to be read, don't do it publicly.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I would say that on the topic of privacy and federal internet spying, we all would be well served to remember two things:

1., The Federal Government is corrupt, knows it is corrupt, and is paranoid as evidenced by that nasty little surprise in the National Defense Appropriations Act allowing any citizen deemed a terror threat to be hauled off with absolutely no due process. Discussion of anything illegal (or that can be misconstrued as illegal) openly or in private e-mails is highly inadvisable. Ditto for anything pertaining to revolution (the inciting of which is illegal), even in terms of being prepared for such an event occurring over your personal objection. As we have been reminded before, the feds have absolutely no sense of humor. Don't even give them the opportunity to put two and two together and come up with five.

2., The only place we can reasonably consider ourselves to enjoy actual privacy is in the bathroom, and I am not entirely sure about that.

Keep these two points in mind, and also that if you fail to do so, even in jest, you endanger yourself, your family and everyone known to associate with you.

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

I would say that on the topic of privacy and federal internet spying, we all would be well served to remember two things:

1., The Federal Government is corrupt, knows it is corrupt, and is paranoid as evidenced by that nasty little surprise in the National Defense Appropriations Act allowing any citizen deemed a terror threat to be hauled off with absolutely no due process. Discussion of anything illegal (or that can be misconstrued as illegal) openly or in private e-mails is highly inadvisable. Ditto for anything pertaining to revolution (the inciting of which is illegal), even in terms of being prepared for such an event occurring over your personal objection. As we have been reminded before, the feds have absolutely no sense of humor. Don't even give them the opportunity to put two and two together and come up with five.

2., The only place we can reasonably consider ourselves to enjoy actual privacy is in the bathroom, and I am not entirely sure about that.

Keep these two points in mind, and also that if you fail to do so, even in jest, you endanger yourself, your family and everyone known to associate with you.

Unfortunately, I feel that you are right. Each day our rights are slowly eroded, with common sense measures, that are mostly designed to protect us from ourselves, and the .gov from us. The founding fathers are doing flips in their graves.