Although suspected to be done so far behind the scenes, it’s
now started to become official
FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media:
"The FBI
is in the early stages of developing
an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as
well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats
and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the
ability to pull the data into a dashboard that also would include classified
information coming in at the same time. One of the key capabilities of the new
application, for
which the FBI has sent out a solicitation, would be to 'provide an
automated search and scrape capability for social networking sites and open
source news sites for breaking events, crisis and threats that meet the search
parameters/keywords defined by FBI/SIOC.'"
