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Homeland Security Given Green Light to Monitor American Journalists

Jan. 9, 2012 11:44pm Tiffany Gabbay

Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”

According to DHS, the definition of personal identifiable information can consist of any intellect “that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.”

RT adds:

Previously established guidelines within the administration say that data could only be collected under authorization set forth by written code, but the new provisions in the NOC’s write-up means that any reporter, whether someone along the lines of Walter Cronkite or a budding blogger, can be victimized by the agency.

Also included in the roster of those subjected to the spying are government officials, domestic or not, who make public statements, private sector employees that do the same and “persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest,” which to itself opens up the possibilities even wider.

The department says that they will only scour publically-made info available while retaining data, but it doesn’t help but raise suspicion as to why the government is going out of their way to spend time, money and resources on watching over those that helped bring news to the masses.

According to RT, the website “Fast Company” reports that the NOC Monitoring Initiative has been in play since at least early-2010 and that the data is being shared with both private sector businesses and international third parties.

(h/t: RT)

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PrestonDawkness
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 2:26am
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HIMSELF

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- PrestonDawkness
  Posted on February 17, 2012 at 2:27am
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CommunismSurvivor
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:44pm
This country is headed for a civil war.

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flyingeagle
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 12:15am
So there you go.if you look close enuf you see the deffenition of contact’s is such anyone could fall within the parameter’s for collecting and holding.Just a little at a time. Slide this in here,pull this out now,take that right there.And bingo you have saftey and secerety so you can sleep at night.

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rbreckmeyer
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:55am
We now live in 1939 Berlin and the only way to change it is to Organize and support Ron Paul in the General Election. He is the only Candidate who supports Liberty, Sound Money, the Constitution, and closing down the Federal Reserve. He also is the only candidate who has a voting record (30 years) that confirms his dedication to his message. He has proposed a trillion dollar cut of the Federal Budget in the first year and stopping the criminal Perpetual War Agenda. I encourage [ALL] Americans to stand with him and take back our great Republic from those who have forced themselves upon us-criminally.
Robert B. Reckmeyer

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mred33
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:45am
Well, seeing as how this Homeland Security outfit is unconstitutional, we need congress to close them down. Anyone have any ideas on how we can get Congress to do the job they are supposed to be doing instead of helping them take our country away from us?? It’s getting to the point that congress is just as unconstitutional as the president is. Both of these branches of government are doing everything they can to destroy this country and have the Supreme Court to back them up. Our whole government has gone mad and none of them are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Congress is supposed to keep an eye on the president to make sure he is doing the right thing and stop him if he goes off track. Well, it’s way past time for them to act, but it would seem that they are as guilty as Obama in breaking just about every law we have and every amendment to the constitution. I think it is time we put the entire government in jail for Treason and elect a new bunch of people to run this country. None of them seem to care about this country anymore, so I guess it is finally falling on us to do something about them. If you are counting on the elections this November, I think you can forget those. Obama will stop them before we have them. Watch the riots this summer and tell me we are going to have elections. Martial law here we come. Maybe if we ask the State Governments real nice they may help us……….

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ak_wilderness
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 11:44pm
cell phones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_social_network and email are social networks…

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judyaz
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:24am
Hey, what’s Ghostery.com? Someone said it shows who websites are monitoring your every click. I downloaded it. Wow! Some are collecting it for marketing or advertising purposes. But who are all these guys? I also learned I could block them on the Ghostery.com web page by selecting them. What-do-ya-think?
http://www.ghostery.com

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call me roy
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 7:02pm
Where is the press?

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ConstitunalAmerican
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 6:12pm
We the People need to vote in as President, Ron Paul. I haven’t heard any of the other candidates speak out against the NDAA law, which was written in secrecy by Carl Levin (D) and John McCain (R). The senate voted it in 93-7. That is an overwhelming majority that agree with the conditions of indefinite detention and stripping away our rights.
There are only two motives for shredding our Constitutional Rights, money and power. Need we wonder those involved in this tyranny?

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