FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 27, 2012 @08:08AM from the they-know-you-read-everything-you-can-about-bieber dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the ability to pull the data into a dashboard that also would include classified information coming in at the same time. One of the key capabilities of the new application, for which the FBI has sent out a solicitation, would be to 'provide an automated search and scrape capability for social networking sites and open source news sites for breaking events, crisis and threats that meet the search parameters/keywords defined by FBI/SIOC.'"

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Re:Can you get Facebook to delete your info? by mr1911 · 2012-01-27 08:22 · Score: 4, Informative

It isn't your data. It is their data about you. Read the TOS you agreed to when you made the account.

Scream about it all you want, but you accepted the terms.

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Re:So. It begins. by Jeng · 2012-01-27 08:54 · Score: 3, Informative

List of supposed trigger words as of @ 2005
http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm

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Re:Can you get Facebook to delete your info? by Beelzebud · 2012-01-27 09:12 · Score: 1, Informative

By the way, I did a little research, and you can request your info be deleted.