German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks

itwbennett writes: Germany's foreign intelligence agency reportedly wants to spend €300 million (about $375 million) in the next five years on technology that would let it spy in real time on social networks outside of Germany, and decrypt and monitor encrypted Internet traffic. The agency, which already spent €6.22 million in preparation for this online surveillance push, also wants to use the money to set up an early warning system for cyber attacks, the report said (Google translation of German original). A prototype is expected to be launched next June with the aim of monitoring publicly available data on Twitter and blogs.

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They should just make a Facebook

[mozumder]

Just like the NSA did.

LOL well they don't need to spy inside Germany

[Crashmarik]

The NSA is doing that for them