FBI seeking social media monitoring tool

[LivnForChrist]

Jan 26 2012

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips.

The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors about the feasibility of
building a tool that would "enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing 'open source' actionable intelligence."

The January 19 open request was published on a website offering federal business opportunities and was first
reported by New Scientist magazine.


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[YeuEmMaiMai]

Add this to the fact that major US city police departments are looking into or are already using UAV, this should not be surprizing in the lest bit. American citizens should be in an uproar...

[Sean Osborne]

These are the operative words: "'open source' actionable intelligence." Terrorists, narco-terrorists and crriminals use this media very extensively, but finding the proverbial needle in a haystack (millions upon millions of online users) is difficult without a "sniffer" tool that looks for specific words or phrases. Then begins laborious correlation and analysis of the collected open source intel. Determining the "actionable" aspect is not something done overnight or even within a span of months for that matter.

Acquiring actionable human intelligence (HUMINT) is by far that best method of interdiction of various plots. They should place their emphasis here.