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DHS Preparing to Use Private Contractors to “Scour Public Data and Social Media” To Compile Dissident Citizens for Watch List and No Fly Lists
The Last Refuge ^ | March 25, 2021 | Sundance

Posted on 03/26/2021 2:34:41 AM PDT by gattaca

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now getting ready to hire public companies, individual contractors outside government, to scour public data and social media in order to provide information for the new “domestic terror watch lists.” From the description it appears DHS is going to pay “big tech” (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, etc.), via contracts, to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens they deem “dangerous.”

Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this?…

NBC is reporting on these new developments as the U.S. intelligence apparatus is preparing to go live with the assembly of lists of Americans who “could be” potential threats to the government; and need to be watched.

However, even NBC is beginning to realize the consequences: “DHS planning to expand relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence and to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans. The department is also contemplating changes to its terrorist watch listing process.”

Here’s the article:

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security, created after the 9/11 attacks to protect the country from international terrorism, is moving toward a sweeping set of policy changes aimed at detecting and stopping what intelligence officials say is now a top threat to the homeland: domestic violent extremism.

Two senior Biden administration officials told NBC News that DHS, whose intelligence division did not publish a warning of potential violence before the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, is seeking to improve its ability to collect and analyze data about domestic terrorism — including the sorts of public social media posts that threatened a potential attack on the Capitol, but were not deemed “actionable” by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

DHS is planning to expand its relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligence, one of the senior officials said, and also to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans, including travel and commercial data through Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other DHS components. (read more)

Expand your thinking to what was initiated with the COVID model for “contact tracing” and you can quickly see how physical proximity to a rogue dissident, a person with wrong thoughts – aka a domestic extremist, can result in you being labeled along with that dissident…. and you are on the list. Then overlay the efforts of Big Tech to assist the administrative state with an electronic trail of your habits, contacts, phone calls, text messages and internet patterns…. and you are on the list.

Remind yourself what FBI “contractors’ with access to the NSA database already did in their quest for political opposition research and surveillance {Go Deep}. Then overlay all of the above and you get an alarming picture that is not something to dispatch.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; civilrights; dhs; facebook; fbi; fisa; freespeech; google; instagram; mediawingofthednc; noflylist; nsa; policestate; privacy; privatecontractors; snapchat; surveillance; tuckercarlson; twitter; tyranny; watchlist; whistleblower; youtube
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To: gattaca

This and the supposed “stand down “trainings” “, etc. in the military is the government establishing a Nazi snitch brigade, etc. against ALL patriots/freedom fighters!!! The government is also doing all this to sow distrust among/within the military, among the people, etc. Also the government is doing all this to try to stop patriots/freedom fighters in the military, and the people from organizing, etc. against the TYRANNICAL/TYRANT(S)’ government, etc.!!


61 posted on 03/27/2021 5:34:50 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Yep, it is EVIL against patriots/freedom fighters for the government to round us up first to be killed by the foreign troops, etc. (etc. in this sentence and others of mine means the EVIL CIA and their EVIL cohorts, etc.)


62 posted on 03/27/2021 5:41:52 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST
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To: SuperLuminal

Unfortunately you are correct!


63 posted on 03/28/2021 5:42:02 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST
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