RCMP Hires US Artificial Intelligence Firm to Spy on Web Users
The RCMP awarded a new social media monitoring contract Sept. 2 to a U.S. company that uses artificial intelligence to track what’s said on the web. Virginia-based Babel Street says its software can instantly translate between 200 languages and filter social media content by geographic areas and by sentiments expressed. Using artificial intelligence, it also analyzes relationships between content and senders, according to the company.
The software is used by several U.S. intelligence and enforcement agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
A lot of groups using social media, plan protests. This leads the RCMP to you. They will have identified the ring-leaders and the other main people, so they'll know who to arrest. There are those who think we're living in a free democratic country, but we're not. We are under scrutiny all the time. [Read more]