Pentagon Eyes Social Networking Sites

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 9 June 2006 at 12:03
Tags: Journalism

Following revelations that the Pentagon’s National Security Agency has been logging phone calls since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the New Scientist reveals that the NSA is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.

It could also harness advances in internet technology 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.

 

Tags: Journalism