Just weeks before a series of mass murders, FBI solicited proposals to pull public data from social media to proactively identify and monitor threats to the U.S. https://t.co/87eudDXYsF

— CEP (@FightExtremism) August 9, 2019

An FBI effort to monitor social media for possible threats could clash with Facebook's privacy policies and attempts to comply with its $5 billion FTC settlement https://t.co/gpZNvCKhW1

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 8, 2019

On a different note, we now have:
- this yday from @robaeprice about scraping content and mining our personal data from Facebook https://t.co/AQtFLuk62M
- WSJ on FBI wanting to do it https://t.co/AQtFLuk62M
- meanwhile Google and Facebook do this as their core business models.

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) August 8, 2019

Not to go all Neil deGrasse Tyson, but when we over-weight the risk posed by terror and mass violence threats, that tends to have real and negative policy consequences. https://t.co/Nk1GUkLtCj pic.twitter.com/AyDRjQ6l5y

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 8, 2019

“An ef­fort by the FBI to more ag­gres­sively mon­i­tor so­cial me­dia for pos­si­ble threats could clash with Face­book pri­vacy poli­cies and a record $5 bil­lion set­tle­ment with the U.S. gov­ern­ment reached just last month.” TRADEOFFS https://t.co/eCFgZHRCsw

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) August 8, 2019

When the FTC ordered Facebook to better protect its users’ data as part of a $5B contract, the FBI was soliciting contractors to gain unauthorized access to that same data. https://t.co/CFtM9BfwVs

— Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) August 8, 2019

FBI Surveillance Proposal Sets Up Clash With Facebook https://t.co/nOV7ciOMZU pic.twitter.com/YNF4rZmWMr

— Rich Tehrani (@rtehrani) August 12, 2019

Just weeks before a series of mass murders, FBI solicited proposals to pull public data from social media to proactively identify and monitor threats to the U.S. https://t.co/87eudDXYsF

— CEP (@FightExtremism) August 9, 2019

The FBI wants to gather more publicly available content. Our bios and posts that we post knowing it is to be seen by everyone. But Facebook’s socalled privacy policy prevents it https://t.co/AwDCWG4LZP

— Pernille Tranberg (@PernilleT) August 12, 2019

When the FTC ordered Facebook to better protect its users’ data as part of a $5B contract, the FBI was soliciting contractors to gain unauthorized access to that same data. https://t.co/CFtM9BfwVs

— Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) August 8, 2019

Yet another threat to privacy of @Facebook users: The FBI... https://t.co/V3vNQFcCQt via @WSJ

— Paul M. Barrett (@AuthorPMBarrett) August 11, 2019

FBI to monitor social media for threats sets up a clash with Facebook.

Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to steal personal information about 160 million Americans in 2016.

Russia used that to influence the outcome of the election. #OneVoice1
https://t.co/MNmjrc5XjR pic.twitter.com/4InnpcKfgJ

— #ImpeachmentInquiryNow (@bbradsby) August 10, 2019

FBI is soliciting vendor proposals to pull vast quantities of data from Facebook, other social media https://t.co/AEtI9Fa7lT via @WSJ

— The Silent Majority (@siIentmajority) August 10, 2019

The FBI is soliciting proposals for a contract to pull public data from Facebook, Twitter Inc. and other social media “to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats to the United States and its interests.” — @JeffHorwitz and @dnvolz for @WSJ https://t.co/WPcwxZjuWg

— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) August 9, 2019

⁦FBI⁩ is soliciting proposals from outside vendors to pull vast quantities of public data from Facebook, Twitter Inc. & others “to proactively identify & reactively monitor threats to the US and its interests.” ⁦@WSJ @BillMew⁩ ⁦@furrier⁩ https://t.co/RzX3XkoHiS

— Sarbjeet Johal (@sarbjeetjohal) August 9, 2019

Remember last weekend when I said that we should remember 9/11 and what it gave birth to in surveillance?

So, now they established their reasons for it. They will sell many on how it’s needed through their fear the media hypes.
https://t.co/ErGtrBEW49

— Ras. (@RasAlGhul_33) August 10, 2019

This is the same FBI that tried to take down ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ then covered it up and still is fighting transparency. “FBI Surveillance Proposal Sets Up Clash With Facebook - WSJ” https://t.co/iflbYSrIxL

— Gary Kendrick (@garylkendrick) August 10, 2019

FBI is soliciting vendor proposals to pull vast quantities of data from Facebook, other social media https://t.co/Y3pWGgojjy

— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) August 9, 2019

Wrong headline. Correct headline: No one can be trusted to safeguard an encryption backdoor. If it's on a computer it can be hacked. Do we really have to keep having this debate??https://t.co/5gCdcJgOGp

— Ronnie 'BEC' T. @BH / DC (@iHeartMalware) August 12, 2019

Peter Thiel says he doesn't trust the FBI to safeguard an encryption backdoor - CyberScoop https://t.co/RyVzifG0ux

— Information Warfare Community Self Synchronization (@IWCsync) August 12, 2019

The FBI is searching for contractors to monitor social media for potential threats, the announcement raises concerns for user privacy.https://t.co/e1XnFV38LM

— EndGameWW3 (@EndGameWW3) August 12, 2019

FBI Seeks To Monitor Facebook, Oversee Mass Social Media Data Collection https://t.co/IN2BDgoPAV #news

— packet storm (@packet_storm) August 12, 2019

#FBI seeks to monitor #Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection https://t.co/msdco3247o via @ZDNet & @SecurityCharlie #CyberSecurity #Security #Somalia #Somaliland #databreach #vulnerability #cyberespionage #Cybercrime #Hacking #Mogadishu #AI #Crypto #Bigdata #Hack

— Atee Tech Network (ANET) (@AnetAtee) August 12, 2019

FBI seeks to monitor #Facebook, oversee mass #socialmedia data collection https://t.co/GJoqbWsLG7 #Infosec #Privacy pic.twitter.com/ChG2DfY4ex

— #AI (@AI__TECH) August 12, 2019

FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection https://t.co/cDhpdUKNBd by @SecurityCharlie

— ZDNet (@ZDNet) August 12, 2019

FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection https://t.co/CTh6yOGdNk

— The Cyber Security Hub (@TheCyberSecHub) August 12, 2019

The Trump administration's policy toward Big Tech moved in opposite directions, as the White House sought platforms' help in predicting mass shootings while it was also reportedly drafting plans to punish them for perceived bias. https://t.co/QurAHGhHGG

— Axios (@axios) August 12, 2019

Trump's pretzel-logic tech policy: The Trump administration's policy toward big tech moved in two opposite directions late last week, as the White House sought the big platforms' help in predicting mass… https://t.co/xJ3X725OGC #TheResistance #ImpeachTrump #NotMyPresident pic.twitter.com/YMQIcAwn40

— Patrick (@cahulaan) August 12, 2019

FBI is soliciting vendor proposals to pull vast quantities of data from Facebook, other social media https://t.co/3xZQpsO2va via @WSJ

— Liberation Technology (@Liberationtech) August 13, 2019

The @FBI is soliciting proposals from outside vendors for a contract to pull vast quantities of public data from Facebook, Twitter Inc. and other social media.

H/T @sarbjeetjohal https://t.co/N3pm51JE8a pic.twitter.com/PegRCjFrpV

— Marsha Collier (@MarshaCollier) August 9, 2019

FBI Surveillance Proposal Sets Up Clash With Facebook
Sounds like social credit with American characteristics https://t.co/bacfx7IO7A

— Paul Triolo (@pstAsiatech) August 12, 2019

The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. After the FTC fined Facebook $5 billion for failing to protect users’ data, the FBI is now soliciting vendor proposals to pull vast quantities of data from Facebook. https://t.co/p2XHz7iD53

— Matthew Leo Kelly (@MatthewLeoKell1) August 9, 2019

FBI's push "to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats" on social media would likely violate Facebook’s ban on using its data for surveillance purposes, according to FB's user agreements and people familiar with how it seeks to enforce them. https://t.co/quuc4Yztzk

— Dustin Volz is extremely on vacation (@dnvolz) August 8, 2019

He's not wrong:

Peter Thiel says he doesn't trust the FBI to safeguard an encryption backdoor https://t.co/oze3ttHTNB

— Crispin Burke (@CrispinBurke) August 13, 2019

#FBI is searching for contractors to monitor social media#Dataprivacy #CyberSecurity https://t.co/3ZbpvR6LnQ

— Aghiath chbib (@AghiathChbib) August 12, 2019

As per reports, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to aggressively harvest information from Facebook and Twitter! Read here https://t.co/AiixBh4Zic #CyberSecurity

— Cyber Pulse (@CyPulse) August 13, 2019

FBI seeks to monitor Facebook, oversee mass social media data collection https://t.co/MvcxiCLRRe #Tech #Technology #IT #BigData #Security #Cybersecurity #ethereum #crypto #crowdfunding #ico #cryptocurrency #IOT #Innovation #computer #cloud #infosec #infosecurity #hackers #hacki…

— nTangled Cloud (@nTangledCloud) August 13, 2019