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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't Use these Words ... Homeland Security Tag Words.
The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover Items Of Interest (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHSor more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networksuse to generate real-time IOI reports. (Although the released PDF is generally all reader-selectable text, the list of names was curiously embedded as an image of text, preventing simple indexing. Weve fixed that below.)
To be fair, the DHS does have an internal privacy policy that attempts to strip your PIIPersonally Identifiable Informationfrom the aggregated tweets and status updates, with some broad exceptions:
1) U.S. and foreign individuals in extremis situations involving potential life or death circumstances; (this is no change)
2) Senior U.S. and foreign government officials who make public statements or provide public updates;
3) U.S. and foreign government spokespersons who make public statements or provide public updates;
4) U.S. and foreign private sector officials and spokespersons who make public statements or provide public updates;
5) Names of anchors, newscasters, or on-scene reporters who are known or identified as reporters in their post or article or who use traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed;
6) Current and former public officials who are victims of incidents or activities related to Homeland Security; and
7) Terrorists, drug cartel leaders or other persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest, (e.g., mass shooters such as those at Virginia Tech or Ft. Hood) who are killed or found dead.
http://animalnewyork.com/2012/02/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-searching-your-facebook-and-twitter-for-these-words/
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Mudslide?
The Sicherdienst can go fuck itself.
rucky
(35,211 posts)don't say "Hi, Jack"
moriah
(8,311 posts)Just not at the airport...
peacebird
(14,195 posts)Bacterial (we presume) exposure due to something he ate? Or how even in the blizzard like cold conditions i have all the windows open and a FIRE going to try to suck the lethal stench from our home?
Terrorists could not have done a more lightening quick attack than this brown animal did on my olfactory senses as i walked into the living room.
You mean i should not write true posts like that?
(TMI, i know, but my gawd, the stench an 85 pound brown furry beast can make?!?)
ananda
(28,879 posts)... word used to define rightwing fundie troglodytes and the
corporate persons who enable them.
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)I study Mexico for a living, and often lecture about drugs and cartels....
lunatica
(53,410 posts)W.T.F.!
Iggo
(47,574 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I know some of the words are insane.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And that's just the entire population of the US.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)to the social engineering of thought control. Being concerned about using certain words is absurd and dystopian.
Words are just words and are distinguished from actions because they aren't actions. We have a hard time, this culture, remembering that words are about.
When you see all of this in the name of "safety" you can be fairly certain that the laws are transforming from a notion of protecting you into a means to control and restrict both thoughts and actions.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Arrest me.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)POOP, lock me up
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Given those keywords, and the traffic we have here, I suspect several.
My contribution to thought control full employment; The DHS haiku.
Warning! Brown pirates
aid fundamentalism.
2600
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Seriously.
To respond according to TSA and Homeland Security ideals? Not so much. LOL. My humanity is not for sale to church or state. Hell, my cats have a better chance of manipulating me. Okay, yes, I'll open the tuna treat container.