Mach
03-03-2012, 09:12 PM
:toady:
Homeland Analysts Told to Monitor Policy Debates in Social Media
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/us/house-questions-homeland-security-program-on-social-media.html
Analysts for a Department of Homeland Security program that monitors social networks like Twitter and Facebook have been instructed to produce reports on policy debates related to the department, a newly disclosed manual shows.
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Ginger McCall of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group that filed the lawsuit and obtained the document, argued that the manual shows that the monitoring may have gone beyond its limited portrayal by department officials.
“The D.H.S. continues to monitor the Internet for criticism of the government,” she said. “This suspicionless, overbroad monitoring quells legitimate First Amendment activity and exceeds the agency’s legal authority."
The Manual
http://publicintelligence.net (http://publicintelligence.net/dhs-media-monitoring-desktop-reference-manual/)
Homeland Analysts Told to Monitor Policy Debates in Social Media
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/us/house-questions-homeland-security-program-on-social-media.html
Analysts for a Department of Homeland Security program that monitors social networks like Twitter and Facebook have been instructed to produce reports on policy debates related to the department, a newly disclosed manual shows.
.....
Ginger McCall of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group that filed the lawsuit and obtained the document, argued that the manual shows that the monitoring may have gone beyond its limited portrayal by department officials.
“The D.H.S. continues to monitor the Internet for criticism of the government,” she said. “This suspicionless, overbroad monitoring quells legitimate First Amendment activity and exceeds the agency’s legal authority."
The Manual
http://publicintelligence.net (http://publicintelligence.net/dhs-media-monitoring-desktop-reference-manual/)