Solon slams CIA tracking of Twitter and Facebook as threat to constitutional rights
“The general profiling of people as ‘friend’ or ‘enemy’ on the basis
of their tweets and email is definitely dangerous and must be stopped.” –
Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares
by INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Next time you post a status in your Twitter or Facebook
account, know that Big Brother might be reading over your shoulder.
Bayan Muna Representative and human rights lawyer Neri Colmenares
sounded the alarm over news reports that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) of the United States of America is tracking Facebook and
Twitter accounts all over the world. According to reports, the CIA is
also using their embassies in various countries for these surveillance
operations.
“While the US government may insist in the legality of their
monitoring of Twitter accounts due to their public nature, monitoring
is a very dangerous preoccupation and a threat to constitutional rights
not only because it crosses into the unconstitutional when it enters
into closed social network sites or hacks emails but also because it
leads to profiling which is unconstitutional especially if it serves as a
prelude to illegal entry into private domains,” he said.
“Vengeful librarians”
According to a report on PressTV, around two-thirds of intelligence
reports sent to Washington are made by CIA analysts who monitor millions
of individual messages sent worldwide on a daily basis via social
networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
It cited a statement of CIA Open Source Center (OSC) director Doug
Naquin that a a team of “vengeful librarians” study networks and media
outlets that are open to contributions made by individuals from all
over the world. Besides the Twitter and Facebook, the CIA also
reportedly monitors television news programs, radio talk shows,
chatrooms in the internet, and newspapers for their content and what
they imply for the military, economic and political security of the US.
These “vengeful librarians” are also said to make note of organizations,
individuals and formations that are critical or outrightly against the
US and its domestic and international policies..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/11/11/solon-slams-cia-tracking-of-twitter-and-facebook-as-threat-to-constitutional-rights/
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