Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp
What are our governments spending money on?<p>How is this possibly a profit-making private enterprise unless it&#x27;s funded by government?<p>It feels like outsourcing a pre-crime department. If this industry exists outside of normal law enforcement it needs unbelievably tight regulation.<p>What powers do these private companies think they have?<p>Do they pass information on to <i>actual</i> law enforcement, and if so, does <i>actual</i> law enforcement do any checks and balances on the information they&#x27;re receiving?<p>I don&#x27;t know if this is next level paranoia or just another scary angle of the same level of paranoia post-911.<p>I&#x27;d also like to be employed by the government to play games and chat online:<p><i>FBI and CIA spies had created fake personas to hunt for potential terror plots discussed in online games, such as World of Warcraft and Second Life, as well as on platforms like Xbox Live. Those initiatives fizzled after the intelligence agencies found little to no evidence of terror communications.</i><p>I&#x27;m interested in arguments that may justify this existing as private industry.<p>Edited to add: I like how the single sentence quote from an FBI official needed to include not one, but two, [sic]s.<p>And<p><i>“detect threat actors when they are young or starting out at 14 or 15, that&#x27;s when I start observing and documenting their malicious activities.”</i><p>Talk about justifying the very activity the teenagers are engaging in, ie. fuck authority.<p>I feel like I want to educate the teens to be smarter, in both their life choices and opsec. I certainly hope law enforcement doesn&#x27;t treat these teenagers with the blunt object that law enforcement is stereotyped to only be equipped with.