What about this Tweeting the word 'drill' could mean your Twitter account is read by U.S. government spies?

[Vanessa]

Fake profiles used by Department of Homeland Security, says privacy group
List of keywords flags 'danger' signal
The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for 'sensitive' words - and tracking people who use them.

Simply using a word or phrase from the DHS's 'watch' list could mean that spies from the government read your posts, investigate your account, and attempt to identify you from it, acccording to an online privacy group.

The words which attract attention range from ones seemingly related to diseases or bioweapons such as 'human to animal' and 'outbreak' to other, more obscure words such as 'drill' and 'strain'.
The DHS also watches for words such as 'illegal immigrant'.

The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as 'illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus', 'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'human to animal' and 'trojan', according to an 'impact asssessment' document filed by the agency.


DHS may attempt to identify users from their accounts
Keywords include 'virus', 'drill' and 'illegal immigrant'The DHS also watches for words such as 'illegal immigrant'.

The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as 'illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus', 'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'human to animal' and 'trojan', according to an 'impact asssessment' document filed by the agency.
When its search tools net an account using the phrases, they record personal information.

It's still not clear how this information is used - and who the DHS shares it with.

[Dynamiccoil656]

don't forget your tin foil hat

[m173627]

And where did this information come from I wonder?

[RJC]

That it is fun to mess with them........'illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus', 'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'human to animal' and 'trojan',

[Uncle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...spies.html

[pedro7of9]

what about it? You sound surprised..or upset,,or WHAT??/ In case you didnt notice we live in the computer age,,Its nothing for a computer to flag a word or sentance,,,,HeII ill bet writing president O BOMBa.get me on some "danger list" lol
share it with any 3 or 4 letter group..IRS ATF FBI even agent Gibbs and NCIS..lol

[Leafer]

Ummm Ok...it seems this report originated with "The Daily Mail" newspaper in the UK..which features brilliant headlines such as this one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/art...inger.html

This is a tabloid newspaper-kind of a British version of the National Enquirer.Note the article quotes "an online privacy group" but doesn't say which one.This so called online privacy group is probably 3 people ,somewhat intoxicated,making this up.

Fact is ANYTHING you post online on blogs or boards.or social networking sites is considered public in the eyes of the law most everywhere-so someone else reading it-even in government isn't really spying-spying infers some intrusion on privacy where it would otherwise be expected.