The FBI has put out a request for information to the tech industry about developing software which would let them spy on all social media. The RFI is looking for "Open Source and social media alert, mapping and analysis application solution," but not a proposal -- yet. Apparently, the government can already follow Twitter and Facebook posts outside the U.S., but in the ever-expanding surveillance galaxy, that's no longer enough. (See my article in In These Times for some background.) Cops need to be able to suss out "pre-crime" in the cybersphere to keep us all very safe.
Well, I don't post anything of concern or interest on Facebook or Twitter, so I don't have anything to worry about, right? Except for that dire & much-cited warning of the theologian Martin Niemoller:
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me."
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