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from: Steve Asher
date: 2009-10-28 22:51:50
subject: `Automatic Dossiers`

Possibly nothing new in here, but an indication of 
Big Brother's plan to trawl through blogs, networking
sites & the like, creating automatic dossiers on anyone,
& looking for "actionable intelligence". Might be handy
in sniffing out islamic terror plots, or just looking
for "islamophobes" and other modern outcasts...


Mind Your Tweets: CIA and European Union Building 
Social Networking Surveillance System
Published on 10-25-2009

By Tom Burghardt - BLN Contributing Writer

Social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and 
their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing 
amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliche'.

It should come as no surprise then, that the secret state and the
capitalist grifters whom they serve, have zeroed-in on the explosive growth
of these technologies. One can be certain however, securocrats aren't
tweeting their restaurant preferences or finalizing plans for after work
drinks.

No, researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are busy as proverbial bees
building a "total information" surveillance system, one that will, so they 
hope, provide police and security agencies with what they euphemistically 
call "actionable intelligence."

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Full article with link to PDF document at Blacklisted News
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6070-0-0-0--.html

Steve

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