The
FBI, The CIA, Homeland Security, The Federal Reserve
And Potential Employers Are All Monitoring You On Facebook
And Twitter
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‘Why is there such a sudden obsession with
monitoring what average Americans are saying on Facebook
and Twitter? To be honest, the vast majority of what is being said on Facebook and Twitter is simply not worth reading even if
you could understand it. But for the FBI, the CIA, the Department of
Homeland Security and the Federal Reserve, Facebook
and Twitter represent a treasure trove of intelligence information. Tens
of millions of us have compiled incredibly detailed dossiers on ourselves and
have put them out there for the entire world to see. Since the
information is public, the various alphabet agencies of the federal government
see no problem with scooping up all of that information and using it for their
own purposes. Many potential employers have also discovered that Facebook and Twitter can tell them an awful lot about
potential employees. Social media creates a permanent record that reflects
who you are and what you believe, and many Americans are finding out that all
of this information can come back and haunt them in a big way. In the
world in which we now live, privacy is becoming a thing of the past, and we all
need to be mindful of the things that we are exposing to the public.
Sadly, most Americans have absolutely no idea who is monitoring them on Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites these
days. The following are just a few examples....
Potential Employers
If you apply for a job at a big company, there is a very high probability
that the company will want to check out what you have been doing on Facebook and Twitter.
According to one recent survey, approximately 90 percent
of all human resources professionals check out the social media accounts of
potential employees.
If you are applying for a job at a small business, there is probably much
less of a chance that your social media accounts will be checked, but the
reality is that all of us need to understand how the world is changing.
Some employers, colleges and government agencies are even taking things a
step further. Now some of them are actually demanding to be allowed in to
the Facebook accounts of applicants. The
following is from a recent Daily Mail article....
Rather
than trying to get around the pesky password protections of Facebook
and email accounts, certain government agencies and colleges are cutting
straight to the source.
Some
extremely inquisitive employers are asking candidates to hand over them their
email and Facebook login information when they apply
for a job.
Others
strongly request that the candidate opens their pages in front of them and
allow their would-be bosses to scroll through their private information during
the interview.
How would you feel if someone forced you to hand over the passwords to your
social media accounts? At some
A
recent revision in the handbook at the
"Each
team must identify at least one coach or administrator who is responsible for
having access to and regularly monitoring the content of team members’ social
networking sites and postings,” it reads. "The athletics department also
reserves the right to have other staff members monitor athletes’ posts."
This is beyond creepy, but this is the world in which we live.
The FBI
The FBI has also decided that it needs to continuously monitor Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites.
The following is from an article posted on zdnet.com....
The
The CIA
The CIA is a long way ahead of the FBI in monitoring social media. If
you are an "activist" on the Internet, the CIA probably knows you
very well. The following is from a recent USA Today article....
In
an anonymous industrial park in
At
the agency's
The Department Of Homeland
Security
Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Caryn Wagner made headlines
all over the world a while back when she announced that the
Department of Homeland Security would be “gleaning information from sites such
as Twitter and Facebook for law enforcement
purposes.”
So exactly what does that mean?
Well, apparently the Department of Homeland Security is actually setting up
fake accounts and using them to monitor social media networks for
information. The following is from a recent Daily Mail article....
The
Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook
profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for 'sensitive'
words - and tracking people who use them.
That same article detailed what some of those "sensitive words"
are a few paragraphs later....
The
DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook
for words such as 'illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus',
'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'human to animal' and 'trojan',
according to an 'impact asssessment' document filed
by the agency.
It is interesting that the Department of Homeland Security considers
"collapse" to be such an important keyword.
Does that mean that every time "The Economic Collapse Blog" is
mentioned on Facebook or Twitter the Department of
Homeland Security is alerted?
That is a sobering thought.
The
It turns out that the U.S. Air Force also wants to do more to monitor social
media. The following is from a recent article by Madison Ruppert....
Dr.
Mark Maybury, the United States Air Force Chief
Scientist, is stepping outside of the typical areas in which an Air Force Chief
Scientist operates and into the digital realm.
Maybury seeks to develop something
he has dubbed “Social Radar” which would monitor information coming from just
about every source imaginable: television, all Internet communications, radio,
official reports, and more, in order to look into the hearts and minds of
target populations and perhaps even predict future events.
The Federal Reserve
According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve "is planning on
monitoring what you say about it on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook".
Aren't they supposed to be "above politics"?
So why is the Fed so concerned about what we are
all saying about it?
Why is there a need to perform "sentiment analysis" on what is
being said about the Federal Reserve on "Facebook,
Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube"?
Are they going to change their policies based on public opinion.
That seems highly unlikely.
Considering the fact that the Fed is setting up a system that would identify
"key bloggers" and monitor "billions of conversations" on the
Internet, it seems more likely that they are primarily interested in
identifying critics of the Federal Reserve.
So once they have that information, what do they plan to do with it?
In the end, a lot of people are going to be scared away from Facebook and Twitter by all of this.
But the truth is that Facebook and Twitter can
also be incredibly powerful tools for spreading the truth.
In the old days, it was nearly impossible for an average American to
communicate to a mass audience.
Today, someone sitting alone in their own home can put something on the
Internet that could potentially be seen by tens of millions of people.
The Internet has empowered average Americans unlike almost anything else
that we have seen.
That is why the establishment feels so threatened by it.
We now have the power to directly talk with one another instead of going
through establishment-controlled channels.
So let them see what we are talking about if they want to.
Perhaps some of them will wake up too.
If they want to find my Twitter account, they can find it right here.
When you have the truth on your side, you don't need to be ashamed. I
am going to keep waking people up no matter how many people want to watch me.
But hopefully if enough of us stand up and speak loudly enough, a cultural
shift back toward liberty and freedom will happen.
So keep preaching the message of liberty and freedom.
Perhaps those stalking us on Facebook and Twitter
will get the message if we keep repeating it often enough.’
