CIA Invests in Software Firm Monitoring Blogs, Twitter

by via Democracy Now

Fri, Oct 23, 2009 6:24AM

Thursday, October 22, 2009 :Wired magazine has revealed the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency has invested in a software firm called Visible Technologies that specializes in monitoring social media sites, including blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. Wired reporter Noah Shachtman writes, “America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates -- even check out your book reviews on Amazon.”

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Noah Shachtman, contributing editor at Wired magazine. He is editor of Danger Room,, the magazine’s national security blog.

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