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Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 30, 2010
Source: Wired.com The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships [...]
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Google and Facebook’s illusion of privacy

By Gideon Swift | Published: April 11, 2010
In January Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, declared the age of privacy to be over. A month earlier, Google Chief Eric Schmidt expressed a similar sentiment. Add Scott McNealy’s and Larry Ellison’s comments from a few years earlier, and you’ve got a whole lot of tech CEOs proclaiming the death of privacy — especially when [...]
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EFF sues feds for info on social-network surveillance

By Gideon Swift | Published: February 16, 2010
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations. The nonprofit Internet rights watchdog group formally asked more than a dozen agencies or departments in [...]
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Facebook, Twitter, Israel’s new battle ground

By Gideon Swift | Published: December 2, 2009
The Israeli military has announced that it will begin recruiting computer experts for a planned Internet and new media department unit. Army Spokesman Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu made the announcement on Monday while speaking at the Eilat Journalists Conference, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The spokesman explained the new department would target the Internet’s social [...]
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Groups Work Toward Ultimate Web Surveillance System

By Gideon Swift | Published: November 30, 2009
…In other words, there’s funding for those seeking to mine Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, forums, fanzines, news aggregators, and other social networking sites in order to build up information on individuals, organizations, and their relationships. From one perspective, this would appear to be a competitive virtual arms race between various U.S. governmental agencies and Europe. [...]
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