Biden team may partner with private firms to surveil suspected domestic terrorists online

CNN ^

[Bigtigermike]

The Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the government's ability to gather intelligence but could draw criticism over surveillance of US citizens.

The Department of Homeland Security is limited in how it can monitor citizens online without justification and is banned from activities like assuming false identities to gain access to private messaging apps used by extremist groups such as the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers.

Instead, federal authorities can only browse through unprotected information on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook and other open online platforms.

The plan being discussed inside DHS, according to multiple sources, would, in effect, allow the department to circumvent those limits. A source familiar with the effort said it is not about decrypting data but rather using outside entities who can legally access these private groups to gather large amounts of information that could help DHS identify key narratives as they emerge.

[Elsie]

May?

WILL!!

[dakine]

FISA..???

FIFA has something to do with futball..

[TBP]

Biden team may partner with private firms to surveil suspected domestic terrorists political opponents online

Corrected.

[PIF]

the parallels she draws about the direction our County is headed in are frightening.

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Guys I knew who escaped the Iron Curtain in the 70s said the same thing then, but no one listened. And most aren’t listening now, worse, many are in favor.

[PIF]

Has anyone seen their definition of “domestic terrorist”?

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‘Domestic Terrorists’ are whom ever they say they are at any given moment. However, ‘Domestic Terrorists’ will never be Antifa, BLM or Jihadis

[PIF]

People better wake up. Our constitution forbids a police state.
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I have no doubt that a sizable portion of US citizens have no idea what the Constitution is, does or even exists.

[StAnDeliver]

"The plan being discussed inside DHS, according to multiple sources, would, in effect, allow the department to circumvent those limits. A source familiar with the effort said it is not about decrypting data but rather using outside entities who can legally access these private groups to gather large amounts of information that could help DHS identify key narratives as they emerge."

Two huge holes in this trial balloon :

• If you're going to engage private groups, those groups will be brought into trial and the federales will have little to no control over that testimony.

• Corollary to the foregoing: 99% of the people that will be subpoenaed from this private group will be dumber than Eric Coomer, and won't have the doctorate to establish as an expert witness. They will be treated like the dogshit 'listeners' that FB employs for $12-an-hour and raked over the coals by counsel for their non-handbook behaviour while 'listening'.

[COBOL2Java]

I have no doubt that a sizable portion of US citizens have no idea what the Constitution is, does or even exists.

They used to teach something called "Civics" in schools. That got thrown out about 50 years ago.

[dforest]

You

[a fool in paradise]

Meant FOIA

[Eleutheria5]

No court orders? How conveeenient.

[Candor7]

surveil suspected domestic terrorists online>

Oh yeah.

Zuckerburg wilkl now have Letters of Mark from the King to wage war on Conservatives?

The Zuck and his ilk better stay in Hawaii. Life will not be good to him otherwise.

O how our ciountry has fallen in such short order.We will have a cyber Gestapo patrolling the web o see if you are a Trump supporter.

[PIF]

They used to teach something called “Civics” in schools. That got thrown out about 50 years ago ...

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right about the time the communists began their take over, while every one poo-pooed the idea and otherwise put down anyone who dared to mention such a possibility, while championing such conundrums as ‘a gun behind every blade of grass’ and other puffy chested armchair general bon mots

[SecondAmendment]

Equifax and Experian will soon add “social credit’ as an oversized component of your score ...

[Jeremiah2911]

Hessians

[catnipman]

so, the fascists want to privatize their Gestapo ...

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Remember they call EVERY ONE OF US on this web site supposed “domestic terrorists” because we are patriots/freedom fighters/love America, etc.

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

Yep, it is ALL EVIL!!

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

That too, and has been going on forever and increasing with any/all EVIL “monitoring” so called “capabilities”, etc.

[TribalPrincess2U]

POS! That’s all the fascist think about. What not for terrorist coming in thru the border?
The left really do want a civil war, don’t they? Now that they have the WH and military in their pockets. I hope no one falls for it. Run ‘em out the legal way. GO TRUMP 2024!