CIA To Track Criminals, Ex-Girlfriends On Social Nets
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009The Central Intelligence Agency announced late Friday that a new technology contract will allow the agency to instantly track criminals, suspects and ex-girlfriends within popular social networks Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. The contract, with Seattle-based Visible Technologies, will allow agents to track any and all social networking activity of “persons of interest” secretely – without logging in or revealing their identities. ”This is a huge leap forward in allowing us to stalk ex-girlfriends,” said CIA Director Leon Panetta. ”Before we had to log in and send friend requests to find out what they were up to. Most of the time they would just ignore or deny us. But now I can track Peggy, Donna, and Gladys Steinberg without them knowing, and find out if they really hooked up with Kevin from senior gym class.” Financial details of the contract were not released, but Panetta characterized the cost as “totally worth it.”