FBI asks developers for social media monitoring app

Fri Jan 27 2012, 11:46 AM

The FBI has released a Request for Information (RFI) asking for help in building an app to monitor social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in real time, as it steps up its surveillance of these services. US enforcement agencies are increasingly turning to social media as a way of tracking crime, with a recent gang arrest in New York made by monitoring gang members’ usage of Twitter.

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