Federal Government to Monitor Twitter for Signs of Unrest

The wave of civil unrest that has swept the globe over the past year has prompted the Department of Homeland Security to step up its monitoring of Twitter and other social networks in a bid to pre-empt any sign of social dislocation within the United States.

“Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Caryn Wagner said the use of such technology in uprisings that started in December in Tunisia shocked some officials into attention and prompted questions of whether the U.S. needs to do a better job of monitoring domestic social networking activity,” reports the Associated Press.

Aren't these the same people that accused Bush of illegal surveillance, and railed against many of the provisions of the Patriot Act? But now, suddenly they think it is okay for this?

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