FOI request gets list of 100's of words to avoid using on-line...

[David2012]

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')

Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request

Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent
By Daniel Miller
PUBLISHED: 04:32 EST, 26 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:46 EST, 26 May 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html


The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

 

[piston10]

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')

Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request

Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent
By Daniel Miller
PUBLISHED: 04:32 EST, 26 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:46 EST, 26 May 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

You just said three of them, your on the list

 

[XD-9Guy]

I just read over the list & I think there is a strong chance that we OSAers have our own agent because I'm guessing somewhere around 90% of posts here contain one or more of those words.

 

[dennishoddy]

I don't know why its so hard to post the text if your going to post a link. Its even doable on an iphone.



Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')
Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request
Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent
By Daniel Miller
PUBLISHED: 04:32 EST, 26 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:46 EST, 26 May 2012
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Revealing: A list of keywords used by government analysts to scour the internet for evidence of threats to the U.S. has been released under the Freedom of Information Act
The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.
The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.
Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.
Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.
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As well as terrorism, analysts are instructed to search for evidence of unfolding natural disasters, public health threats and serious crimes such as mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal immigrant busts.
The list has been posted online by the Electronic Privacy Information Center - a privacy watchdog group who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act before suing to obtain the release of the documents.
In a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, the centre described the choice of words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'.


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[David2012]

Yeah, clicking a link is such a hard thing to do for some people.. that extra second eats up a lot of time. And then there is a little thing called copy right law .. where some news agencies ask you not to repost their material.. but that doesn't bother some people...

 

[Glocktogo]

That list is retarded. There are several common every day use words on there.

Now waiting to see updated sig lines with a list of these words included.

 

[dennishoddy]

Yeah, clicking a link is such a hard thing to do for some people.. that extra second eats up a lot of time. And then there is a little thing called copy right law .. where some news agencies ask you not to repost their material.. but that doesn't bother some people...

as long as the link is posted to credit the OP, no problemo

 

[David2012]

Project Echelon [I think it is based in Virgina] has been spying on almost all all phone calls, e-mail and the internet for years. It has always had a dictionary of words to search for. At one time, 3 of the words had to pop up in the same message or internet search before the computer would start recording and then notify a human monitor.

When I first learned of it it was a joint operation between America & Canada. There was always a Canadian & American intel officer on duty. Due to the laws of the United States and Canada forbiding their goverment from spying on its own citizens without a search warrant.. it use to be that if the message originated in Canada, then the American intl officer would monitor the message or internet search.. or if it originated in America, the Canadian officer would do the monitoring.. that is how they got around the law.

With these new super computers and storage capabilities.. there is no telling what the government has stored away on all of us these days.

 

[Dale00]

Apparently you can never be too safe. I've heard of grammar Nazis. Are these guys the vocabulary police?

 

[dennishoddy]

Yup, nothing is secret anymore. The right to privacy no longer exists.