DHS is watching Facebook and Twitter, among other sites:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document.
A “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November says that since at least June 2010, its national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”The purpose of the monitoring, says the government document, is to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.”
How many pairs of lidless eyes are matched to such important tweets and Facebook updates as broadcast mall visits, and bathroom breaks?
I guess we’ll never learn, but at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that each and every one of them come with good salaries, medical and dental.
(BTW, I have seen the extended list, and it may sadden you to learn that these our digital scribblings and your gem-like responses didn’t make the cut. I know.)
I use an insane pseudonym on FB, never mention any last names and definitely never mention the services or any sacred terms that may linked to the magic list of never-to-be-uttered- words.
Might be why I only have 18 “friends”.
CAPT, doncha worry. We’re all being watched on these pages, but the effort is so like BEYOND TOP SECRET that they can’t mention it to ANYONE! My guess is that our very own special agent is one Flit (sorry Flit – humor! Really!)
Yeah, Flit probably posts what he does so he can record our return rants and present them to the Maximum Obummer and then we will be immurred for life for our ravings.
My understanding is that all information transmission methods are being watched by big brother including, cell phones, email, texting, social networks, radio, TV, microwave, VHF, you name it. The big brother is watching idea goes well beyond a theory, it exists. We all leave tracks, especially those who communincate over the internet and cell service. The outrage over trampled civil rights is not a top story….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/fbi-wants-more-power-to-t_n_672227.html
Airmail/
Late here but this all was foretold in the 2008 movie “Eagle-Eye.” Check it out@ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/
The bureaucratic insanity has penetrated many levels. I recently had a light case of flu with the annoying nasal drip that causes sore throat, especially after attempting a night of sleep.
The BEST over the counter treatment is Actifed. But if you go down to your local drugstore now you will find that the original preparation is no longer available. It contained pseudoephedrin hydrochloride, which the druggies have evidently been buying by the truckload for their meth production. So all the original preparation has been withdrawn and a new, less effective, version is now sold in the US.
Sigh, drip-drip-drip, sigh.
Ask the pharmacist if you can sign for it. A lot of it is behind the counter, it doesn’t take a prescription to obtain (codeine, for example), but you do have to sign a log for it.
And here in Coastal California the druggist will scan your California Driver License when you get the “behind the counter” version.
One more little piece of privacy lost and database updated.
I bought some Bronkaid while I was in Mo this last Christmas and had to sign for it. You can still get 12 hour cold caps, but you have to present your driver’s license and they will set up your magnetic ink so they can watch how much of it you buy. It’s a precursor for methaphetimine.
That’s Methamphetimine.
methamphetamine. You need to get that grandson to help you with your spelling. Neurotypicals!
I’ve been medicating with 12 yr old bourbon– no prescription needed, didn’t have to sign for it, and not much more per ounce than Nighquill.
I guess homeland security now knows I’ve had Subway Spicy Italian subs for dinner every night this week.
On the other hand, if there’s another 9/11 level event, and it turns out that the enemy was using open social media to communicate, we’ll all be up in arms asking why no one thought to listen to what they were saying.
The camel is fully in the tent now.
Well, If DHS is reading, tell Janet I’m waiting for her to say something intelligent and that isn’t immediately retracted going on 3 years now. I pity anyone actually ‘reporting’ to such an idiot.
I had been wondering about that huge cat like eye floating above the White House.
Hell, they know who we are. I just wish they would admit who America’s actual enemy is.
We didn’t? Dang, now I know how ol’ Major Unger felt when he found out that the Viet Cong price on his head only amounted to about $8 American.
Surely Sipsey Street is on there? The Agitator? Pretty please?