U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
By Noah Shachtman
America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates - even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23768.htm
Judge rules FBI can continue to gag recipient of National Security Letter
Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can use such letters to demand personal records about customers from internet providers, financial institutions and credit card companies without a warrant, and then keep the companies from disclosing even that they'd received such a letter.
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US spies invest in internet monitoring technology
American spies are investing in technology designed to monitor websites including blogs, Twitter, YouTube and even reading habits on Amazon.
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From Information Clearing House
America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates - even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23768.htm
Judge rules FBI can continue to gag recipient of National Security Letter
Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can use such letters to demand personal records about customers from internet providers, financial institutions and credit card companies without a warrant, and then keep the companies from disclosing even that they'd received such a letter.
http://snipurl.com/sn0xx
US spies invest in internet monitoring technology
American spies are investing in technology designed to monitor websites including blogs, Twitter, YouTube and even reading habits on Amazon.
http://snipurl.com/sn0y9
From Information Clearing House
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