{"id":1082,"date":"2012-02-29T20:29:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/29\/dhs-monitoring-of-social-media-under-scrutiny-by\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:28:46","slug":"dhs-monitoring-of-social-media-under-scrutiny-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/29\/dhs-monitoring-of-social-media-under-scrutiny-by\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Monitoring Of Social Media Under Scrutiny By Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1329236636\/dhs-monitoring-of-social-media-under-scrutiny-by-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1329236636\/dhs-monitoring-of-social-media-under-scrutiny-by-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/tZ8aq9UvFY5Zom4VOyipAjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>WASHINGTON &ndash; Lawmakers looking into homeland security officials&rsquo; practice of monitoring social media sites seized on a report Thursday by a civil liberties group that said taxpayers have shelled out more than $11 million to a private contractor to analyze online comments that &ldquo;reflect adversely&rdquo; on the federal government.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/16\/dhs-monitoring-of-social-media_n_1282494.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via huffingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesWASHINGTON &ndash; Lawmakers looking into homeland security officials&rsquo; practice of monitoring social media sites seized on a report Thursday by a civil liberties group that said taxpayers have shelled out more than $11 million to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/29\/dhs-monitoring-of-social-media-under-scrutiny-by\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/05\/11\/congress-will-vote-to-save-net-neutrality\/","url_meta":{"origin":1082,"position":0},"title":"Congress will vote to save net neutrality","author":"aslam","date":"May 11, 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.battleforthenet.com\/redalert\/Breaking: the Senate is about to vote on a resolution to save net neutrality and stop ISPs from ruining the Internet. 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