Is the CIA reading this blog?

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The CIA is everywhere in the media. Now, according to Wired, here's the newest wrinkle. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, is putting cash into Visible Technologies to spy on social networks.

Who is being spied upon? Visible Technologies is souring "open source intelligence," information that is publicly available to survey the content on such sites as TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.


Visible crawls over half a million sites a day and scans over a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon (It doesn't touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.)

It gets better. Visible gets feeds of what is being said, plus ratings on whether posts are positive or negative, neutral or opinionated, influential or not.

What is even scarier is whether of not the information gathered could be used for unauthorized domestic investigations or operations.

Is the CIA invading your "right to privacy" by monitoring what you say and talk about in the media?

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