New Scientist: NSA Wants Info From Social Networking Sites

[DudeAsInCool]

"New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."

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[Wolfie]

Big brother is here!

[KiwiCoromandel]

national security lunatics.....only in amerika eh???....isn`t this sort of thing really starting to piss you guys off??.....how much more is the american public going to cop of this rubbish before they collectively do something about it....??

[DudeAsInCool]

national security lunatics.....only in amerika eh???....isn`t this sort of thing really starting to piss you guys off??.....how much more is the american public going to cop of this rubbish before they collectively do something about it....??

The public is disgusted. The Courts and Congress have told the White House enuff already. If the Dems can regain Congress, then the fun will begin - we are going to see hearings the likes the Republicans havent seen since Iran-Contra and Watergate..and then the real fun will begin.

[KiwiCoromandel]

The public is disgusted. The Courts and Congress have told the White House enuff already. If the Dems can regain Congress, then the fun will begin - we are going to see hearings the likes the Republicans havent seen since Iran-Contra and Watergate..and then the real fun will begin.

i`m looking forward to it dude....even though i don`t live over there.... :)