In the Saturday, November 5th issue of Newsday, an article written by Kimberly Dozier of the Associated Press headlined CIA Eyes Revolt on Social Media. It piqued my interest so I read the story.
In a quick synopsis, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is monitoring tweets and Facebook updates overseas. Apparently, there are groups of people who monitor tweets all day long. These men and women are reviewing more than 5 million tweets a day.
The analysts on the team also check TV news, radio and internet chat rooms for any conversation from “a thoughtful blog to an angry tweet.” They are checking these tweets in all different languages including Arabic and Madarin.
In the article the director is quoted as saying that his group saw the uprising in Egypt but they didn’t know when the event would actually happen.
The article tries to assure us, Americans, there is no effort to collect information on us via social media. They say that they are just looking at activity overseas.
Hmmm… Common, I’m not stupid and neither are you. They are looking at everything we say and write on the Internet. And if the CIA isn’t doing that, then each and every country they are monitoring are doing that.
How does that make you feel? Do we have privacy anymore?
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