A nonprofit law and public policy institute recently obtained documents that revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had a deal with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2018 to launch a project called the “Night Fury,” which was designed to evaluate and assign social media accounts with “risk scores.”
The documents were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
According to online magazine Motherboard , the Brennan Center for Justice shared the procured documents which found that the federal surveillance project was aimed initially at utilizing automation to detect social media accounts for connections to terrorism, illegal opioid distribution and disinformation campaigns . The project began in September 2018 and cost almost $790,000.
“The contractor shall develop these attributes to create a methodology for developing a ranking, or ‘risk score,’ associated with the identified accounts,” one DHS document said. It […]
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