BY CHRISTINE SAVOIA
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has posted a social media application seeking contractors to build a system that can monitor social media for potential security threats. This news comes from the FBIâs Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC), which indicates that the system should be able to collect public or âopen sourceâ information from social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.
The description posted along with the application indicates that the SIOC is looking for something highly flexible, so that agents can maintain alerts, filter data geographically, and quickly adapt to changing security crises. This document contains a comprehensive list of requirements, including abilities to plot global terrorist data, locate embassies, view real-time traffic or mob scenes, and monitor natural disasters.
