Secret Service Wants Surveillance Software that Detects
'Sarcasm' on Social Media
by Warner Todd Huston 4 Jun 2014,
11:32 AM PDT
The U.S. Secret Service is seeking bids on new surveillance software
that can monitor social media in real time and detect "sarcasm" by
users as well as gather and track users' past posts across multiple platforms.
The new contract is titled the
"Computer Based Annual Social Media Analytics Subscription" and
requires software creators bidding on the project to create a new program
capable of real-time monitoring of social media sites able to locate users
geographically and to detect sarcasm and false positives in users' posts.
Along with having the capability
to read, locate, and track social media users in real time, the new software
must also be capable of gathering a history of social media users' past posts.
The Service also wants to be able to have an automatic way to determine if
social media users are potentially violent or if they are just joking with
their posts.
It is unclear just how much
Congress knows of this new Secret Service contract.
The full list of what the Secret
Service wants the new software to do is as follows:
*Real-time stream analysis;
*Customizable, keyword search features;
*Sentiment analysis;
*Trend analysis;
*Audience segmentation;
*Geographic segmentation;
*Qualitative, data visualization
representations (heat maps, charts, graphs, etc.);
*Multiple user access;
*Functionality to have read-only users;
*Access to historical twitter
data;
*Influencer identification;
*Standard web browser access with
login credentials;
*User level permissions;
*Compatibility with Internet
Explorer 8;
*Section 508 compliant;
*Ability to detect sarcasm and
false positives;
*Functionality to send
notifications to users;
*Functionality to analyze data
over a given period of time;
*Ability to quantify the agency's
social media outreach/footprint;
*Vendor-provided training and
technical/customer support;
*Ability to create custom reports
without involving IT specialists; and
*Ability to search online content
in multiple languages.
U.S.
Secret Service
U.S. Secret
Service is a division of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
Note: Jeh Charles
Johnson is the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, and was a governor for the Roosevelt Institute.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, the Center
for American Progress, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and is the founder & chairman for
the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Center
for American Progress was a funder for Apple
Inc., Facebook, Google Inc., and the Microsoft Corporation.
William H. Gates
III is a co-founder & technology adviser & director for the Microsoft Corporation, and a co-chair
for the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.
National
Security Agency (NSA) was a
grant recipient from the Microsoft
Corporation.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Esther M.
Olavarria was the director of immigration policy for the Center for American Progress, and is
the deputy assistant secretary at the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security for the Barack Obama administration.
Melody
C. Barnes was the EVP for the Center
for American Progress, a domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, is a senior
director at the Albright Stonebridge
Group, and Barack Obama’s golf
partner.
Albright
Stonebridge Group was a funder for the Center
for American Progress.
Carol M. Browner
is a senior counselor for the Albright
Stonebridge Group, a senior fellow, director for the Center for American Progress, and was the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration.
Madeleine K.
Albright is the chair for the Albright
Stonebridge Group, and a director at the Center for American Progress.
Tom Daschle is the chairman for the Center for American Progress, was the nominee
for health and human services secretary for the Barack Obama administration, a director at the CBRE Group, Inc., and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Richard
C. Blum is the chairman for the CBRE
Group, Inc., an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and a regent at the University of California.
Janet A.
Napolitano is the president for the University of California,
the homeland security secretary for the Barack
Obama administration, was the secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Dennis K. Burke was her senior adviser.
Dennis K. Burke
was Janet A. Napolitano’s senior
adviser, and is a co-founder for the Global
Security & Intelligence Strategies.
Mark
Sullivan is a co-founder for the Global
Security & Intelligence Strategies, and was a director at the U.S. Secret Service.
U.S. Secret
Service is a division of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
Earl
E. Devaney was a special agent for the U.S.
Secret Service, and a director of criminal enforcement for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Carol M. Browner
was an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, is a senior
counselor at the Albright Stonebridge
Group, and a senior fellow, director for the Center for American Progress.
Albright
Stonebridge Group was a funder for the Center
for American Progress.
Center
for American Progress was a funder for Apple
Inc., Facebook, Google Inc., and the Microsoft Corporation.
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