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Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | DHS using Biosurveillance of Social Networks The US Department of Homeland Security has signed a multi-million dollar contract with a global management consulting firm to boost the country’s attempt to master biosurveillance using social networks. Virginia-based Accenture Federal Services will receive $3 million in federal funds to spend during the next year as they assist with efforts from the DHS and the Office of Health Affairs (OHA) to improve the United States’ ability to track health trends and potential pandemics by means of monitoring social media accounts and other online activity. According to a statement from the company, Accenture will be working hand-in-hand with the OHA in order to test out a pilot program that hopes to manage, link and analyze crucial data submitted by individuals about diseases and perhaps even a biological attack by pulling feeds from social networks. “Biosurveillance is the monitoring of public health trends and unusual occurrences, relying on pre-existing, real-time health data – data that is publicly available and easily obtained,” says Joanne Veto, Accenture’s director of media and analyst relations. “Because of the vast amount of data and information available and readily shared through social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs) and the rapid pace information is shared, collecting and understanding information from these channels is critical.” It’s no secret that the government has used social media to analyze domestic trends earlier, but this could be the first time that the DHS is determined to try and keep track of science, monitoring user-inputted data to map out and make sense of certain statistics. Read more: [ link to rt.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1305582 Canada 11/16/2012 10:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: DHS using Biosurveillance of Social Networks |
DL User ID: 25582762 United States 11/16/2012 10:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: DHS using Biosurveillance of Social Networks Meanwhile, the billions spent on all the DHS "fusion" centers haven't caught any threats to the U.S.
Another DHS billion dollar boondoggle, flushing your tax dollars down the toilet. |
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User ID: 21626989 United States 11/17/2012 10:22 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: DHS using Biosurveillance of Social Networks Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1305582 thanks! |