For the past two years a tight-lipped and little talked
about unit within the Metropolitan Police has been conducting
blanket surveillance of British citizens' public social media
conversations.
Following an unintentional leak and a detailed investigation
we are finally able to see some of the capabilities of this 17-man
team -- some of which are truly alarming.
The Prism scandal engulfing US and UK intelligence agencies has
blown the debate wide open over what privacy means in the digital
age and whether the internet risks becoming a kind of Stasi
2.0.
The extent of the UK's involvement in this type of mass
surveillance -- which already appears exhaustive -- shows just what
a potential intelligence goldmine social media data can be.
For the rest of the story: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/26/socmint
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