Is Big Brother Watching You On FaceBook?
(Raw Story.com) One of the nation’s leading electronic privacy groups claimed this week that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) misled members of Congress during a recent hearing on whether the Department is paying a defense contractor $11.4 million to keep tabs on protected free speech and dissent against government policies on the Internet.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which triggered the hearing by publishing a trove of secret government documents in January, told Raw Story on Thursday that a second round of documents they’ve obtained directly contradicts testimony given on Feb. 16, showing that the DHS instructed their analysts to do exactly what the Department denied.
“There were several exchanges that they had with members of Congress in which they sort of distanced themselves from the idea — that they weren’t engaging in this monitoring of public reaction to government proposals,” McCall told Raw Story. “But that’s… Well, it’s not true, according to the documents we obtained.”
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which triggered the hearing by publishing a trove of secret government documents in January, told Raw Story on Thursday that a second round of documents they’ve obtained directly contradicts testimony given on Feb. 16, showing that the DHS instructed their analysts to do exactly what the Department denied.
“There were several exchanges that they had with members of Congress in which they sort of distanced themselves from the idea — that they weren’t engaging in this monitoring of public reaction to government proposals,” McCall told Raw Story. “But that’s… Well, it’s not true, according to the documents we obtained.”
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Everyone has to remember this is the internet and not a private conversation between two (2) people over the phone or in the same room.
ReplyDeleteSadly people have grown to understand somehow that what you do on INTERNET is a private converstion and that couldn't be further from the truth.
So if you have something you have to say and it isn't nice don't say on the internet because anyone can read it and that is fact and you have no way to stop that from happening and that is another fact.
Yes, but the beef here is about whether the GOVERNMENT should be snooping around, paying disproportionate attention to dissenters. That is Orwellian and unconstitutional. How long will it be before they make something up to start arresting dissenters just like Mao did?
DeletePrivate citizens reading what other citizens are saying on the internet is one thing, but the government checking on what people are saying about it is another. The American people better get this in check and put the government in its place ASAP.