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May 16, 2016

Twitter Giveth and Taketh Away (NSA as Profit Center?)

Filed under: Intelligence,NSA,Twitter — Patrick Durusau @ 9:39 am

Twitter Giveth: GCHQ intelligence agency joins Twitter. Just about anyone can get a Twitter account these days.

Do see the GCHQ GitHub site for shared software.

Taketh Away Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service.

Twitter has barred Dataminr from providing services to government intelligence services.

Dataminr monitors the entire Twitter pipe and provides analytics based on that stream.

Will this result in the NSA sharing its signal detection in the Twitter stream with other intelligence agencies?

Or for that matter, the NSA could start offering commercial signal detection services across all its feeds. Make it a profit center for the government rather than a money pit.

BTW, don’t be deceived by the illusion of space between government and Twitter, or any other entity that cooperates with a national government. Take “compromised” as a given. The real questions are by who and for what purpose?

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