An FBI effort to monitor social media for possible threats could clash with Facebook's privacy policies and attempts to comply with its $5 billion FTC settlement
An effort by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to more aggressively monitor social media for possible threats could clash with Facebook Inc.’s privacy policies and possibly its attempts to comply with a record $5 billion settlement with the U.S. government reached just last month.
The FBI is soliciting proposals from outside vendors for a contract to pull vast quantities of data from Facebook, Twitter Inc. and other social media “to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats to the United States and its interests.”...
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