Download or read book DHS Monitoring of Social Networking and Media:Enhancing Intelligence Gathering and Ensuring Privacy written by House of Representatives, Space, and Technology Committee and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is watching your Facebook? your Tweets?December23, 2011. As a result of this lawsuit, DHS disclosed to EPIC 285 pages ofdocuments, including statements of work, contracts, and other agency records relatedto social network and media monitoring.These documents reveal that the agency had paid over $11 million to an outsidecompany, General Dynamics, to engage in monitoring of social networks and mediaorganizations and to prepare summary reports for DHS. According to DHS documents,General Dynamics will ''Monitor public social communications on the internet,''including the public comment sections of NYT, LA Times, Huff Po, Drudge,Wired's tech blogs, ABC News. DHS also requested monitoring of Wikipedia pagesfor changes and announced its plans to set up social network profiles to monitorsocial network users.DHS required General Dynamics to monitor not just ''potential threats and hazards,''''potential impact on DHS capability'' to accomplish its homeland securitymission, and ''events with operational value,'' but also paid the company to''Identify[] reports that reflect adversely on the U.S. Government, DHS, or prevent,protect, respond or recovery Government activities.''Within the documents, DHS clearly stated its intention to ''capture public reactionto major Government proposals.'' DHS instructed the media monitoring companyto generate summaries of media ''reports on DHS, Components, and other FederalAgencies: Positive and negative reports on FEMA, CIA, CBP, ICE, etc. as well asorganizations outside the DHS.''