Jakarta Globe, January 27,
2012
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social
media for intelligence tips.
The US
domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors
about the feasibility of building a tool that would “enhance its techniques for
collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence.”
The Jan. 19
open request was published on a Web site offering federal business
opportunities and was first reported by New Scientist magazine.
The FBI
said it is seeking an “open source and social media alert, mapping and analysis
application solution” for its Strategic Information and Operations Center
(SIOC).
“Social
media has become a primary source of intelligence because it has become the
premier first response to key events and the primal alert to possible
developing situations,” the FBI request said.
“Intelligence
analysts will often use social media to receive the first tip-off that a crisis
has occurred,” it said.
The FBI
said the tool “must have the ability to rapidly assemble critical open source
information and intelligence that will allow SIOC to quickly vet, identity, and
geo-locate breaking events, incidents and emerging threats.”
It would
need to be able to “instantly search and monitor key words and strings in all
‘publicly available’ tweets across the Twitter site and any other ‘publicly
available’ social networking sites/forums.”
It would
also need the ability to “search the data across a myriad of parameters and
view terrorist activities by location, terrorist group, and type of attack and
see trends and analytics.”
In
addition, it would have to be able “to immediately translate into English,
tweets and any other open forum publically available social media captured in a
foreign language.”
Interested
parties have until Feb. 10 to respond to the FBI request.
Agence France-Presse
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