FREE SPEECH NOT FREE
Homeland
Security Monitors Journalists
Freedom of
speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot
in America, but the Department of Homeland Security
is on the ready to make sure that the government is
keeping dibs on who is saying what.
Under the
National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media
Monitoring Initiative that came out of DHS
headquarters in November, Washington has the written
permission to retain data on users of social media
and online networking platforms.
Specifically,
the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of
Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS) can
collect personal information from news anchors,
journalists, reporters or anyone who may use “traditional
and/or social media in real time to keep their
audience situationally aware and informed.” (More.)
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