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There are more than 500 words you shouldn't say on Twitter or Facebook unless you want to be flagged by the Department of Homeland Security.
There is a surveillance program the agency quietly began in February 2011 to monitor social media, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Documents reveal that anything you post on social-media websites such as Twitter and Facebook could come under review by the Department of Homeland Security, or at least by General Dynamics, the military defense contractor hired to implement the surveillance program.
In the event that your Facebook or Twitter post is flagged, a further investigation could be triggered, and information could be shared with other government agencies.
You have little grounds to claim that your postings on Facebook and Twitter have an expectation of privacy. Social media is almost the equivalent of speaking loudly at a crowded party -- people beyond your intended recipients will hear your words.
Since 9/11, we have far too often willingly forfeited privacy in the name of security, be it the Patriot Act, the New York Police Department's spying of Muslim Americans, body-scanning machines, intrusive pat-downs at airports and who knows what else is out there that we have yet to find out about.
Benjamin Franklin famously warned, "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/09/opinion/obeidallah-social-media/index.html
There is a surveillance program the agency quietly began in February 2011 to monitor social media, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Documents reveal that anything you post on social-media websites such as Twitter and Facebook could come under review by the Department of Homeland Security, or at least by General Dynamics, the military defense contractor hired to implement the surveillance program.
In the event that your Facebook or Twitter post is flagged, a further investigation could be triggered, and information could be shared with other government agencies.
You have little grounds to claim that your postings on Facebook and Twitter have an expectation of privacy. Social media is almost the equivalent of speaking loudly at a crowded party -- people beyond your intended recipients will hear your words.
Since 9/11, we have far too often willingly forfeited privacy in the name of security, be it the Patriot Act, the New York Police Department's spying of Muslim Americans, body-scanning machines, intrusive pat-downs at airports and who knows what else is out there that we have yet to find out about.
Benjamin Franklin famously warned, "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/09/opinion/obeidallah-social-media/index.html