The United States Secret Service is set to purchase
software that can track Twitter users in real time, prompting concerns
that individuals could face greater harassment over tweets deemed to be
threatening or anti-government.
According to a solicitation
posted this week, the federal agency announced its intention to use the
tool to undertake “sentiment analysis,” “influencer identification,”
“access to historical Twitter data,” “ability to detect sarcasm,” and
“heat maps” that will show user trends. (Continue reading...)
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