Homeland Security reviews social media guidelines

Well, if you, the class and anybody else how knows me best, couldn’t tell by now that I listen and watch many forms of publicized political news - listen, we are all crazy to someone else - then you don’t understand the feeling I have towards this article I’ve linked at the bottom of this confession. It’s not as direct as it may seem I’m more interested in the implications of what is being said, rather. Basically, the article is talking about the impact of social media on the Homeland Security Intelligence Department. I know, that’s a lot to swallow, I believe in you though – wink. Here, maybe I can help; the United States Homeland Security, more specific the intelligence department, has run across an evident relationship between data from social networking sites and its supportability of resolving, and quite possible preventing complex global issues. The Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Caryn Wagner theorizes the real issue is not the data itself but how to gain and use the data efficiently i.e. gathering correctly, how to use things like Twitter or Facebook to produce an intelligence product. Like many of you probably know, data is useless until it can produce information. In other words information is a sort of measurable and concrete feeling, usually following some sort of protocol, which can be reached from its littler parts, data. That’s to say, that information helps explain some sort of effect or lack of an effect by studying the little bits that make up the entire effect. She went on to say a part of that challenge is the ‘developing of guidelines for collection and analyzing information’ from social media sites. The wheels are defiantly in motion over at the Homeland Security Department; however, according to Mrs. Wagner Homeland Security is not currently monitoring any social networks. Yeah! I’m not sure how much I believe that, but ok.

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Homeland Security reviews social media guidelines