U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets


	U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

sincitykitty

10-21-2009 11:56 AM

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America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates " even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

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