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US spies could be tracking you on Twitter
Thursday December 29, 2011 10:14:11 AM,
IANS
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London: The US
department of homeland security reportedly makes fake Twitter and
Facebook profiles in a bid to track down people who use
"sensitive" words.
If anyone uses a word or phrase from the department's list,
American spies might read the posts, investigate the online
account and even attempt to identify the person from it, the Daily
Mail reported.
Some words which reportedly attract attention are outbreak, drill,
strain, illegal immigrant, virus, recovery, deaths, collapse and
trojan, according to a report filed by a private group -- the
Electronic Privacy Information Centre.
It was not clear how this information was being used.
The group said the US government has used scans of social media
earlier to analyse specific events -- such as the 2010 BP oil
spill.
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