the cops are looking at your weekend rager pics!
The FBI has an eye on social networks…
FBI has an eye on social networks. Apparently social networks are the psychics of the Web. A free psychic- score! The FBI wants to develop an early-warning system that will alert possible domestic and global threats via “open source” information. WTF is this? Basically it is any content you or me or the crazy person they are looking for posts onto social networks publicly.
Hmm… a couple problems with this fine thinking of our “clever” US Federal Bureau of Investigation. First, they’re banking on the fact that the crazy person will actually use a social network- why would anyone want to talk about how they are going to go ape shit? Second, if the crazy person does use social networks, the FBI believes they will make this public information! Oh I see it now, yes of course, the crazy man will create a public event with date, time and address for everyone to come participate, duh!
FBI EYE on you.
The FBI wishes to create an application that combines information from Twitter, Facebook and Google Maps. The Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) made this request public when it posted their “Social Media Application” market research on the web on 19 January.
What is going on with freedom of speech? Keywords can only narrow down the information so much. The amount of information that is going to be flooding their application will be overwhelming. Plus, it will be useless, they will be flushing it down the toilets right before they realize this is a stupid idea that is a waste of money and flushing THAT down the toilet.
