{"id":520752,"date":"2021-05-18T07:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=520752"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T11:36:26","slug":"biden-to-use-private-firms-to-surveil-service-members-social-media-accounts-for-concerning-behavior-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-use-private-firms-to-surveil-service-members-social-media-accounts-for-concerning-behavior-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Use Private Firms To Surveil Service Members\u2019 Social Media Accounts For \u2018Concerning Behavior\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-use-private-firms-to-surveil-service-members-social-media-accounts-for-concerning-behavior-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=520752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JB1-2-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is reportedly preparing to contract with private firms to surveil the social media accounts of service members to weed out those with views that the administration deems \u201cconcerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Intercept <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/05\/17\/military-pentagon-extremism-social-media\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>An extremism steering committee led by Bishop Garrison, a senior adviser to the secretary of defense, is currently designing the social media screening pilot program, which will \u201ccontinuously\u201d monitor military personnel for \u201cconcerning behaviors,\u201d according to a Pentagon briefing in late March. Although in the past the military has balked at surveilling service members for extremist political views due to First Amendment protections, the pilot program will rely on a private surveillance firm in order to circumvent First Amendment restrictions on government monitoring, according to a senior Pentagon official. Though the firm has not yet been selected, the current front runner is Babel Street, a company that sells powerful\u00a0surveillance tools\u00a0including social media monitoring software.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A spokesperson for Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that the congressman was not aware of the alleged plan, saying, \u201cI have discussed this with our defense team and as of right now, we have not heard anything from DoD that would confirm this story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the House Armed Services Committee released the following statement on the matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>The Committee understands that the Department of Defense is exploring a means of implementing social media screening in conjunction with background investigations. We anticipate that any social media screening would be intended only as an additional means of vetting cleared individuals or those seeking to obtain a security clearance, not as a tool for ongoing surveillance of all men and women in uniform.\u00a0That said, Secretary Austin has been clear about his intentions to understand to what extent extremism exists in the force and its effect on good order and discipline. We look forward to hearing the results of the stand down and the Department\u2019s plan to move forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report said that the alleged pilot program will search for certain keywords to identify those that the administration deems to be potential extremists, although experts warned that the method was not only an invasion of privacy, but flawed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing key words to monitor social media isn\u2019t just an unnecessary privacy invasion, it is a flawed strategy that will ensure it is short-lived,\u201d retired FBI agent Mike German told the publication. \u201cIt will undoubtedly produce a flood of false positives that will waste security resources and undermine morale, without identifying the real problem, which is the tolerance for those that openly engage in racist behavior and discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-biden-admin-considering-using-private-firms-to-conduct-warrantless-surveillance-of-u-s-citizens\">reported<\/a> at the start of the month that the Biden administration was considering working with private firms to monitor \u201cextremist chatter by Americans online\u201d because the federal government is legally limited to what they can do without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan being discussed inside DHS, according to multiple sources, would, in effect, allow the department to circumvent\u201d laws that limit what the federal government can do in surveilling U.S. citizens without a warrant, CNN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/03\/politics\/dhs-partner-private-firms-surveil-suspected-domestic-terrorists\/index.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cA source familiar with the effort said it is not about decrypting data but rather using outside entities who can legally access these private groups to gather large amounts of information that could help DHS identify key narratives as they emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any plans to surveil U.S. service members will likely face intense pushback, especially after a Space Force commander was allegedly forced out of the military after he warned that Marxism was infiltrating the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is reportedly preparing to contract with private firms to surveil the social media accounts of service members to weed out those with views that the administration &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278390,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JB1-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden To Use Private Firms To Surveil Service Members\u2019 Social Media Accounts For \u2018Concerning Behavior\u2019: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/JB1-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden To Use Private Firms To Surveil Service Members\u2019 Social Media Accounts For \u2018Concerning Behavior\u2019: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}