Internal DHS documents reviewed by Motherboard provide more detail on a DHS plan to monitor social media for content related to terrorists, the illegal opioid trade, and foreign interference bots.
I’m actually fine with this. It’s essentially reading through information made publicly available by the users themselves and determining if they are a threat based on that information.
This is literally what we want. This isn’t surveillance of private data, this is watching what people themselves put into the public.
That’s the line we draw. Digging into people’s private data in the name of security is inherently an invasion of privacy. This is… looking at public information.
I’m actually fine with this. It’s essentially reading through information made publicly available by the users themselves and determining if they are a threat based on that information.
This is literally what we want. This isn’t surveillance of private data, this is watching what people themselves put into the public.
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That’s the line we draw. Digging into people’s private data in the name of security is inherently an invasion of privacy. This is… looking at public information.