13.08.2013 - 20:18 [ Federation of American Scientists ]

Military Tests Data Mining of Social Media for Special Ops

See “Project QUANTUM LEAP: After Action Report,” 12 September 2012. (..)

“We are currently in a ‘window’ of opportunity for exploitation of social media sources for application to CTF [counter threat finance] or other SOCOM NCR missions. This window could be as narrow as 18-24 months before the social media phenomenon transforms.