Canada’s military plans to monitor the world’s social media

Military intelligence wants 24/7 access to the world’s social media streams, and they don’t want anyone knowing it’s them.

The Star, --January 8, 2016

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OTTAWA—Canada’s military wants to monitor and analyze the world’s social media streams, with 24/7 access to real-time and historical posts on websites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
And they don’t want anyone knowing it’s them doing the monitoring, either. The Department of National Defence and its research wing, Defence Research and Development Canada, are in the market for a new Internet monitoring platform that can analyze and filter the daily firehose of social media posts. More...

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