06-09-2011, 12:54 PM
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Avatar Identity Program ? Department of Homeland Security
I turned this up on an Internet search ? put on your tin hats
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February 24th, 2011
[T]he Avatar Identity Program appears to coincide with another Air Force project to solicit ?persona management software? to create virtual users on the Internet in order to conduct perception management campaigns to inundate chat rooms, letter to the editor, and on-line polls to sway public opinion on key issues. ...
However, Homeland Security?s Avatar Identity program involves the creation of an avatar for every Internet user that pulls information from the actual user?s Google searches, Twitter messages, Facebook postings, on-line commerce activities, and other web interactions and feeds the transactions to the avatar program. Intelligence analysts then query the avatar for details of the user?s activities. ...
Spying on Internet Users ? Beware the government?s avatars, especially fear your own ...
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At first I thought they might have been seeking to find similar avatars on the Internet. Apparently not, oops I gave them another sinister idea ....
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