Tech | October 28, 2009 | 11 comments

CIA Invests in Social Media Monitoring Company

source: http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/947002/CIA-invests-social-media-monitoring-company/

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"LONDON - US intelligence agency, the CIA, has formed a "strategic partnership and technology development agreement" with Visible Technologies, a company specialising in data-mining social-networking sites such as Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, has invested in Visible Technologies, "a leading provider of social media analysis and engagement solutions". The move is believed to be part of the CIA’s aim to utilise the "open source" information available on social networking sites.

"Intelligence agencies or employees might be tempted to use the tools at their disposal to compile information on political figures, critics, journalists or others, and to exploit such information for political advantage.

"That is not permissible even if all of the information in question is technically 'open source'."

Visible Technologies currently works with clients including Microsoft, Hormel and Xerox."

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