In an effort to target "domestic extremists," the Department of Homeland Security is deploying Big Tech to spy on Americans through social media and report on whether they might be a threat.
NBC News reported a "sweeping set of policy changes" to improve the way the government collects data includes "the sorts of public social media posts that threatened an attack on the U.S. Capitol" in January.
The FBI and other agencies have seen the posts, the report said, but determined they weren't "actionable," cited unnamed senior officials.
"DHS plans to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, as well as to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects about Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components," the report said.
"Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?" The Conservative Treehouse blog commented.
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In an effort to target "domestic extremists," the Department of Homeland Security is deploying Big Tech to spy on Americans through social media and report on whether they might be a threat.
NBC News reported a "sweeping set of policy changes" to improve the way the government collects data includes "the sorts of public social media posts that threatened an attack on the U.S. Capitol" in January.
The FBI and other agencies have seen the posts, the report said, but determined they weren't "actionable," cited unnamed senior officials.
"DHS plans to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, as well as to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects about Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components," the report said.
"Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?" The Conservative Treehouse blog commented.