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Karthika Muthukumaraswamy: Let's Be Intelligent About Social Media Intelligence

Source: Huffington Post

Oct 27, 2009

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Last week, Wired reported that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's technology arm, is investing in Visible Technologies, the social-media monitoring company, which tracks over half a million Web sites everyday. Many of the sites that the company surveys include blogs, online forums and open social networks, which can render public opinion about products and services in real time.

Yes, the CIA, which has relied on covert agents and clandestine operations for decades, is turning to the indiscreet information-sharing tendencies fostered by the Web 2.0 world to acquire real-time data. The agency is increasingly looking at open-source intelligence as a viable source of information.

What this means is that snippets from Internet postings, blogs, and social media can be used for information gathering and data mining. Intelligence agencies have relied on information from the public sphere for a few years now, be it on online discussion forums, Web sites of groups of interest, or citizen media sites. Doug Naquin, the Director of the Open-Source Center mentioned in a speech last yea

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