DHS Monitoring of Social Networking and Media:Enhancing Intelligence Gathering and Ensuring Privacy

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Who is watching your Facebook? your Tweets?

December
23, 2011. As a result of this lawsuit, DHS disclosed to EPIC 285 pages of
documents, including statements of work, contracts, and other agency records related
to social network and media monitoring.
These documents reveal that the agency had paid over $11 million to an outside
company, General Dynamics, to engage in monitoring of social networks and media
organizations and to prepare summary reports for DHS. According to DHS documents,
General Dynamics will ‘‘Monitor public social communications on the internet,’’
including the public comment sections of NYT, LA Times, Huff Po, Drudge,
Wired’s tech blogs, ABC News. DHS also requested monitoring of Wikipedia pages
for changes and announced its plans to set up social network profiles to monitor
social network users.
DHS required General Dynamics to monitor not just ‘‘potential threats and hazards,’’
‘‘potential impact on DHS capability’’ to accomplish its homeland security
mission, and ‘‘events with operational value,’’ but also paid the company to
‘‘Identify[] reports that reflect adversely on the U.S. Government, DHS, or prevent,
protect, respond or recovery Government activities.’’
Within the documents, DHS clearly stated its intention to ‘‘capture public reaction
to major Government proposals.’’ DHS instructed the media monitoring company
to generate summaries of media ‘‘reports on DHS, Components, and other Federal
Agencies: Positive and negative reports on FEMA, CIA, CBP, ICE, etc. as well as
organizations outside the DHS.’’

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Pages: 48

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: November 20, 2012

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