Episode 476 • • 42:02 - 45:00
476: Middle Class Infanteers
Population-Centric ISR, Twitter Firehose, In-Q-Tel Investments
A report from the C4ISR Journal details how the Pentagon and CIA exploit social media as "unwitting sensors" through population-centric Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). Companies like Booz Allen and the CIA-funded In-Q-Tel are reportedly mining the "Twitter firehose" to create predictive tools for the Department of Defense.