"Fearing a civil liberties backlash and "bad public relations" for the Obama administration, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to end the secret U.S. policy that prohibited immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas, according to a former senior department official."

 

Seriously? To NOT do what many potential employers do for a $25,000 job applicant is criminal when you're talking about US security. Shoot this may have been started during the Bush administration, I don't know and I don't care. It's wrong and should be changed.

 

https://gma.yahoo.com/secret-us-policy-blocks-agents-looking-social-media-122017778--abc-news-topstories.html#

No surprise from this administration.

This is off topic, but the cost of reviewing all these social media accounts must be staggering. How are we supposed to pay for this?

I'll have to check when my meds wear off, but I think that social media is not off limits, now hacking into conversations and messages are.

 

Jumper Dad, whatever the cost, we need to do the searches of pages and websites, with all of the money we spend on gathering info this isn't going to be too much more.

This is off topic, but the cost of reviewing all these social media accounts must be staggering. How are we supposed to pay for this?

 

I wondered that myself but a good friend heavily into the IT security industry said it would not be that difficult to automatically monitor for key words and phrases and that it is in fact already being done.

I wondered that myself but a good friend heavily into the IT security industry said it would not be that difficult to automatically monitor for key words and phrases and that it is in fact already being done.

 

It's similar to setting up Google alerts. And there are already platforms out there that businesses use to monitor their own multiple social media accounts.