The Feds have been forced to release their social network monitoring
manual, which contains the list of words the government watches on
social media and news sites. ~ List – Video
Earlier the Huffington Post reported on the Feds have been forced to
give up their list of words they monitor on Facebook, Twitter, and
comments being posted on news articles so I compiled that list below.
Homeland Security Manual Lists Government Key Words For Monitoring Social Media, News…
Ever complain on Facebook that you were feeling “sick?” Told your
friends to “watch” a certain TV show? Left a comment on a media website
about government “pork?”If you did any of those things, or tweeted about your recent vacation
in “Mexico” or a shopping trip to “Target,” the Department of Homeland
Security may have noticed.In the latest revelation of how the federal government is monitoring
social media and online news outlets, the Electronic Privacy Information
Center has posted online a 2011 Department of Homeland Security manual
that includes hundreds of key words (such as those above) and search
terms used to detect possible terrorism, unfolding natural disasters and
public health threats. The center, a privacy watchdog group, filed a
Freedom of Information Act request and then sued to obtain the release
of the documents.The 39-page “Analyst’s Desktop Binder” used by the department’s
National Operations Center includes no-brainer words like “”attack,”
“epidemic” and “Al Qaeda” (with various spellings). But the list also
includes words that can be interpreted as either menacing or innocent
depending on the context, such as “exercise,” “drill,” “wave,”
“initiative,” “relief” and “organization.”These terms and others are “broad, vague and ambiguous” and include
“vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely
unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the
public against terrorism and disasters,” stated the Electronic Privacy
Information Center in letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee
on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.The manual was released by the center a week after Homeland Security
officials were grilled at a House hearing over other documents obtained
through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that revealed analysts were
scrutinizing online comments that “reflect adversely” on the federal
government. Mary Ellen Callahan, the chief privacy officer for the
Department of Homeland Security, and Richard Chavez, director for the
National Operations Center, testified that the released documents were
outdated and that social media was monitored strictly to provide
situational awareness and not to police disparaging opinions about the
federal government. On Friday, Homeland Security officials stuck by that
testimony.A senior Homeland Security official who spoke to The Huffington Post
on Friday on condition of anonymity said the testimony of agency
officials last week remains “accurate” and the manual “is a starting
point, not the endgame” in maintaining situational awareness of natural
and man-made threats. The official denied Electronic Privacy Information
Center’s charge that the government is monitoring dissent. The manual’s
instruction that analysts should identify “media reports that reflect
adversely on DHS and response activities” was not aimed at silencing
criticism but at spotting and addressing problems, she added.[…]
Source: The Huffington Post
The Official List – Using these words online will put you in the crosshairs of Big Brother’s multi-billion dollar spy machine…
Domestic Security
Read the Deparment of Homeland Security Media Monitoring Desktop Reference
Analyst Desktop Binder_REDACTED
Video of Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.), chairing a hearing of the House
Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
about the Department of Homeland Security’s monitoring of social media.
Uploaded by alexhiggins732 on Feb 27, 2012
Alexander Higgins – February 27, 2012 – AlexanderHiggins
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