{"id":2719,"date":"2012-01-26T18:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2012-01-26T18:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:47:25","slug":"fbi-plans-social-network-map-alert-mash-up-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/fbi-plans-social-network-map-alert-mash-up-application\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/58116000\/jpg\/_58116699_toptweets.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter screenshot\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/> The FBI wants an app to combine information from Twitter, Facebook and Google Maps.<\/div>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material &#8220;scraped&#8221; from social networks.<\/p>\n<p>It says the application should provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity&amp;mode=form&amp;tab=core&amp;id=64c7a3014f6e2944e30c05266eedd9b4&amp;_cview=0\">information about possible domestic and global threats<\/a> superimposed onto maps &#8220;using mash-up technology&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bureau has asked contractors to suggest possible solutions including the estimated cost.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy campaigners say they are concerned that the move could have implications for free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI&#8217;s Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) posted its &#8220;Social Media Application&#8221; market research request onto the web on 19 January, and it was subsequently flagged up by New Scientist magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The document says: &#8220;Social media has become a primary source of intelligence because it has become the premier first response to key events and the primal alert to possible developing situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It says the application should collect &#8220;open source&#8221; information and have the ability to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide an automated search and scrape capability of social networks including Facebook and Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>Allow users to create new keyword searches.<\/li>\n<li>Display different levels of threats as alerts on maps, possibly using colour coding to distinguish priority. Google Maps 3D and Yahoo Maps are listed among the &#8220;preferred&#8221; mapping options.<\/li>\n<li>Plot a wide range of domestic and global terror data.<\/li>\n<li>Immediately translate foreign language tweets into English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The FBI says the information would be used to help it to predict the likely actions of &#8220;bad actors&#8221;, detect instances of people deliberately misleading law enforcement officers and spot the vulnerabilities of suspect groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Privacy permissions<\/p>\n<p>The FBI issued the request three weeks after the US Department of Homeland Security released a separate report into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/onepercent\/2012\/01\/fbi-releases-plans-to-monitor.html\">privacy implications of monitoring social media websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It justified the principle of using information that users have provided and not opted to make private.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Information posted to social media websites is publicly accessible and voluntarily generated. Thus the opportunity not to provide information exists prior to the informational post by the user,&#8221; it says.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the department&#8217;s National Operations Center had a policy in place to edit out any gathered information which fell outside of the categories relevant to its investigations.<\/p>\n<p>It listed websites that the centre planned to monitor. They include YouTube, the photo service Flickr, and Itstrending.com &#8211; a site which shows popular shared items on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>It also highlighted words it looked out for. These include &#8220;gangs&#8221;, &#8220;small pox&#8221;, &#8220;leak&#8221;, &#8220;recall&#8221; and &#8220;2600&#8221; &#8211; an apparent reference to the hacking-focused magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Dragnet effect&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The London-based campaign group, Privacy International, said it was worried about the consequences of such activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social networks are about connecting people with other people &#8211; if one person is the target of police monitoring, there will be a dragnet effect in which dozens, even hundreds, of innocent users also come under surveillance,&#8221; said Gus Hosein, the group&#8217;s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not necessarily the case that the more information law enforcement officers have, the safer we will be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police may well find themselves overwhelmed by a flood of personal information, information that is precious to those it concerns but useless for the purposes of crime prevention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group noted that it was seeking information from the UK&#8217;s Metropolitan Police Service about its use of social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Source BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI wants an app to combine information from Twitter, Facebook and Google Maps. The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material &#8220;scraped&#8221; from social networks. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/fbi-plans-social-network-map-alert-mash-up-application\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}