From Courthouse News Service: (CN) – After stonewalling demands about its plans to monitor social media, the Department of Homeland Security owes $30,000 in attorneys’ fees, a federal judge ruled.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said Homeland Security announced plans to monitor social media sites in February 2011.
“The initiatives were designed to gather information from ‘online forums, blogs, public websites, and message boards,’ to store and analyze the information gathered, and then to ‘disseminate relevant and appropriate de-identified information to federal, state, local, and foreign governments and private sector partners,'” according to the federal complaint filed in Washington, D.C.
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