American intelligence communities are interested in your YouTube video, flickr uploads, tweets — even your online book purchases — and for over a year they’ve been laying down some serious cash to get a better look at all of them.
According to Wired, the tech-focused investment firm In-Q-Tel, that works with the CIA, is investing in Visible Technologies who perform social media monitoring and analytics.
This is the first major shift in the spy community’s commitment to monitoring public conversations that fill the Internet in blog posts, web uploads, purchases, TV shows, podcasts, YouTube videos, and articles every day.
Visible pulls from over 500,000 every 24 hours, grabbing more than one million posts, conversations, images, videos, and Amazon purchases. Clients get tailored real-time results of what’s happening based upon desired keywords.
Once Visible has a handle on what’s being said it “scores” each post and labels it negative or positive, mixed or benign. It also factors the influence of the author, or conversation, weighing each comment separately. The end-user interface then allows clients to tag user comments, and dialogue on them with colleagues.
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