Saturday, October 02, 2021

GOVERNMENTUK Military Wants to Spy on Social Media to Detect “Change in Population Sentiment”

GOVERNMENTUK Military Wants to Spy on Social Media to Detect “Change in Population Sentiment”
"The UK Ministry of Defence has inadvertently revealed its plan to spy on social media platforms in order to detect “change(s) in population sentiment.”
Despite ostensibly being about “better use of existing silos,” the MoD’s Data Strategy for Defence document explains how the military should move towards “Automated scanning of social media platforms” to detect “change in population sentiment.”

“Nowhere does the document explain why a strategy paper has gone so far off the beaten track that it promotes collecting data the MoD doesn’t have and using it for decidedly non-military purposes,” reports the Register...Read all.

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