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Adrian Lamo Is a “Volunteer” for Project Vigilant, a Private Internet Surveillance Company Closely Linked to U.S. Intelligence

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 3, 2010
cryptogon.com Via: Forbes: A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers, hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its “volunteers”, researcher Adrian Lamo, to inform the [...]
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CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 21, 2009
Slashdot Tuesday October 20 An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: “In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using [...]
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Report: Massive FBI database set to quadruple in size

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: September 23, 2009
It’s not unclear at all. Just where did you think all those stolen records over the past years were going? Identity theft didn’t take the kind of jump it should have with all those thefts, so it was going somewhere, and that somewhere was a massive database: Rawstory ‘Unclear’ how FBI got thousands of hotel, [...]
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