It seems that some companies such as CIA and FBI are pushing their employees to use such sites as Myspace and Facebook for reasons that one would not think of.
If you saw your employee on such websites during work hours you would think that they were slacking off, however their bosses could have told them to do so. These bosses are encouraging their employees to use these websites for super secret spying purposes. The CIA and FBI agencies are using a new social utility website called A-space to do their spying duties.
This website is a social-networking site for analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Instead of blogging like we do regarding our lives and celebrity gossip, these CIA and FBI agents can blog about "Al Qaeda movements in the Middle East or Russian naval maneuvers in the Black Sea."
This new website has been going through tests and investigations for the last few months and it has officially been launched for the nation's entire intelligence community as of Sept. 22.
"It's every bit Facebook and YouTube for spies, but it's much, much more," said Michael Wertheimer, assistant deputy director of national intelligence for analysis. "It's a place where not only spies can meet but share data they've never been able to share before."
Of course, the material on A-Space is highly classified, and so it will not be available for the public.The only people that will be able to use it will be intelligence personnel with the proper security clearance, and a reason to be examining particular information.
-Albina A
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Seeing that MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, one might say that tracking and monitoring of a law-abiding citizen's personal activities can come in all sorts of forms. (Just ask AT&T.) And, just for the record, as much as the FBI and CIA probably wouldn't mind turning a profit, they are not "companies." They are federal government agencies.
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