[Upd-discuss] Neo-fascism in the USA: CIA funded study to spy on chat rooms, CNET News.com

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

>From the Progressive Librarian Guild.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5466140.html
One of the FOIA'd documents, thanks to EPIC:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/nsf_mou.pdf


Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:35:11 -0800 (PST)
From: "Dan Tsang" <dtsang@lib.uci.edu> 
To: "PLGNET-L" <PLGNet-L@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Subject: [Politech] CIA funded study to spy on
chat rooms [priv] (fwd)

Not surprising... but this would violate "no
secret
research" policy at
many universities. dan

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:05:03 -0500
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: [Politech] CIA funded study to spy on
chat rooms
[priv]


One of the FOIA'd documents, thanks to EPIC:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/nsf_mou.pdf

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http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5466140.html

Security officials to spy on chat rooms
Published: November 24, 2004, 10:28 AM PST

The CIA is quietly funding federal research into
surveillance of
Internet chat rooms as part of an effort to
identify
possible
terrorists, newly released documents reveal.

In April 2003, the CIA agreed to fund a series of
research
projects that
the documents indicate were intended to create
"new
capabilities to
combat terrorism through advanced technology."
One of those
projects is
research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in Troy,
N.Y., devoted
to automated monitoring and profiling of the
behavior of
chat-room users.

Even though the money ostensibly comes from the
National
Science
Foundation, CIA officials were involved in
selecting
recipients for the
research grants, according to a contract between
the two
agencies
obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information
Center
(EPIC) and
reviewed by CNET News.com.

NSF program director Leland Jameson said
Wednesday the
two-year
agreement probably will not be renewed for the
2005 fiscal
year.
"Probably we won't be working with the CIA
anymore at all,"
Jameson
said. "I think that people have moved on to other
things."

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