Outsourced Intelligence: How the FBI and CIA Use Private Contractors to Monitor Social Media [View all]

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"Right now, companies like Palantir Technologies Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton, and i2 are mining your Facebook and Twitter data in an effort to discern whether you're a terrorist, have ties to terrorists or maybe just have the potential to someday become one. They also want to know if you have links to the Boston bombers, Kim Jong-un or Darth Vader, and they've been paid millions upon millions of dollars to do this on behalf of the US Special Operations Command, FBI, CIA, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), the Army, Marines and the Air Force. Initially a small start-up conveniently funded in part the CIA's nonprofit venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, Palantir Technologies is now the leading embodiment of online Big Brother. "

*If you thought that the FBI and CIA were the only ones watching you online, think again. Undersecretary of Homeland Security Charles Allen gave testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee's Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Subcommittee that he had established a "Domestic Open Source Intelligence Enterprise" in support of the department's antiterrorism efforts. DHS is not the only one; there is also the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, US Army Foreign Military Studies Offices, US Special Operations Command, US Strategic Command, INTERPOL, EUROPOL, Scotland Yard, the Mounties in Canada and every other self-respecting form of law enforcement agency."

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