The U.s Department of Homeland Security Following The Twitter and Facebook
by Government document showed that the center of American leadership in the Department of Homeland Security continues on a regular basis, dozens of Web sites that are popular such as Facebook, Twitter and Wikileaks, blogs and online forums.
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A report, “Review of Privacy compliance” issued by the Department of Homeland Security in November that since June 2010, at least the operations center of the Ministry is conducting follow-up to social networking sites and Web sites, which include access regular on “Internet forums available to the public, blogs and Web sites public. “
The document says that the governmental purpose of the follow-up is “to collect information that allows vision of the situation and reach a common image of the work.”
The document adds a language more explicit that the goal of such operations is to assist the Department of Homeland Security and its many, including the CIA and the Federal Agency for emergency response to direct how the government deals with events such as earthquake, which occurred in 2010 in Haiti and control over the security and the border at the Vancouver Winter Games Olympics in British Columbia in Canada in 2010.
An official at the Department of Homeland Security and the beginning of the follow-up program that the sole objective is to enable the officials of the command center to be in constant contact with the different ways in the era of online media to become aware of the key events that may be on the ministry or its agencies to deal with it.
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The document, which described the outlines of a program of follow-up all the sites that would follow the command center “available for all … and the only goal of any use of data available through social networking sites is to provide a more accurate of the current situation and pictures of a comprehensive joint action and provide information to decision makers at an appropriate time more. “
And some of the sites listed in the list of follow-controversial, such as Wikileaks, even though officials in other government agencies and directed them to warnings from the use of computers, the official in obtaining materials from the site Wikileaks because much of it remains classified in terms of the official under the rules established by the U.S. government .
The other sites listed (Jihad Watch JihadWatch) and / Anformd Kument Informed Comment / two Mdontan covering issues related to Islam from political angles sharp, which led some to accuse the signatories of political bias.
While officials from the Department of Homeland Security involved in the surveillance program confirmed the validity of this list could not be allowed officials to speak on behalf of the ministry to respond immediately to a message by e-mail asked for comment.
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