By Danny Fenster
ticklethewire.com
It is no secret that social networks provide riches of info available to the public.
And the FBI is looking for ways to cash in on that and better monitor info on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, reports the New Scientist.
A document released on January 19 shows the bureau was looking for companies that might want to build a social network monitoring system for the FBI, according to the New Scientist.
“The bureau’s wish list calls for the system to be able to automatically search ‘publicly available’ material from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for keywords relating to terrorism, surveillance operations, online crime and other FBI missions,” the publication reported. “Agents would be alerted if the searches produce evidence of “breaking events, incidents, and emerging threats”.
That document suggests the FBI wishes to use social media sites to look into specific groups of individuals, allowing agents to “locate bad actors…and analyze their movements, vulnerabilities, limitations, and possible adverse actions,” allowing the FBI to create “pattern-of-life matrices,” or logs of suspects’ daily routines, says the New Scientist.
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