FBI Wants App to Spy On Social Networks

Do you really think that the title sounds cool? Well, it really doesn’t matter what you think but yes, FBI is planning to build an App which will monitor the Social Networks like Facebook, Twitter and others which will help them to predict and gather intelligence on Possible threats.

On January 19th, FBI published a Notice on it’s web site asking for Potential contractors to contact with the bureau by February 10th. FBI wants the contractors to submit their outline of the app and and the probable cost of it. However, from the attached PDF file of the notice, we found some interesting information on the requirements of this app that FBI wants.

“This must be a secure, light weight web application portal, using mash-up technology. The application must have the ability to rapidly assemble critical open source information and intelligence that will allow SIOC to quickly vet, identify, and geo-locate breaking events, incidents and emerging threats. The product must have the capacity to allow the user to retain control of cached and real-time proprietary data; the ability to share it with selected partners, and ultimately enhancing coordination, synchronized-awareness and synergy at the operation level. ” – FBI Says.

As far as the Operational Capabilities of this app goes, FBI wants not only to monitor Social networks but also national and local news sites by using certain keywords or search parameters determined by the bureau. This app will alert the agency through automatic real time search capabilities along with locating the source of the threat on Map.

So, what are you waiting for? If you are an Web app developer, give it a shot. Hey, you never know.