CIA Invests in Software Firm Monitoring Blogs, Twitter-gctid37297

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October 22, 2009

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Wired magazine has revealed the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency has invested in a software firm called Visible Technologies that specializes in monitoring social media sites, including blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. Wired reporter Noah Shachtman writes, "America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates—even check out your book reviews on Amazon."

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