Planned FBI Tracking Application Will Monitor Social Networks

  • The FBI is looking for developers for its Web alert system called the “FBI Social Media Application,” which plans to help the agency monitor social networks for threats.
  • The platform will cross-reference information from social sites with databases and will have the ability “to rapidly assemble critical open source information and intelligence … to quickly vet, identify and geo-locate breaking events, incidents and emerging threats,” according to a 12-page document posted online.
  • The FBI explained to Fox News: “[We] will not focus on specific persons or protected groups, but on words that relate to ‘events’ and ‘crisis’ and activities constituting violations of federal criminal law or threats to national security. Examples of these words will include lockdown, bomb, suspicious package, white powder, active shoot, school lockdown, etc.”

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