FBI¶

A report released to EFF under the FOI, shows how the FBI is considering undercover agents in social networking sites. The most telling part of the government report is the offhand comment about facebook:

The 33-page presentation noted that Twitter has a “stated policy of producing data only in response to legal process,” while saying Facebook is “often cooperative with emergency requests.”

• www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/eff-posts...
• news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20000550-38....
• articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-17/business...

Leaked source code from a few pages of facebook php code show that every profile view is tracked.

In-Q-Tel¶

From cia.gov:

“In-Q-Tel’s mission is to foster the development of new and emerging information technologies… that produce solutions to some of the most difficult IT problems facing the CIA.”

Also:

“In-Q-Tel’s mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States”

According to the In-Q-Tel press release, recently invested in a company that helps “organizations adopt new ways of gaining actionable insight from social media” include “real-time visibility into online social conversations”.

www.iqt.org/news-and-press/press-releas...

www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/exclus.../

Youtube¶

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

“We’re looking now at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence,”

Doug Naquin, director of DNI Open Source Center
www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/02/open_s...

NSA¶

Building a giant social network map of everyone in the US. See NSA.