U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets By Noah Shachtman

Posted on October 19, 2009 by dandelionsalad

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By Noah Shachtman
Danger Room
Wired.com
Oct. 19, 2009

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

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