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The CIA's Social Mining Department

Posted by Soulskill on from the digesting-aggregated-opinions dept.

bsquizzato writes "The Associated Press is running a story about the CIA's Open Source Center: 'a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians,"' who work out of 'an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building' scouring social networks and other online media to keep up with the world's current events and opinions on American actions. This should come as no surprise, but it's quite interesting that President Obama is briefed daily on the latest hot topic tweets and Facebook posts."

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  1. Re:Three Days of the Condor? by Hartree · · Score: 4, Funny

    " Imagine browsing through millions of pictures of LOLcats"

    I can has top seecretz?

  2. Re:Domestic operations? by Beelzebud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After 9/11 the bed wetters gave up their freedom for security, and took everyone along for the ride.

  3. I'll give them something to mine for by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about instead of spying on the little guy, you go after the people that wrecked america, economically, socially, politically and intellectually.

    Can you bring those crooks to justice please?

    --
    So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
  4. Re:CIA=Facebook=Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're right, their reading of public domain information off of facebook does not mean that they own facebook.

    The fact that they dumped $12.7 million into facebook (when it was worth $500 thousand) does kind of mean they own it.

    watch this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfY_HTzd_4U

    The CIA had the creation of a relationship network database of Americans as a stated goal long before they wound up co-opting facebook for that purpose...

    Just watch the video.