{"id":357513,"date":"2023-06-09T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=357513"},"modified":"2023-06-08T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:05:15","slug":"dhs-sought-to-assign-social-credit-style-risk-scores-to-social-media-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/06\/dhs-sought-to-assign-social-credit-style-risk-scores-to-social-media-users\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Sought To Assign Social Credit Style \u201cRisk Scores\u201d To Social Media Users"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Cindy Harper, Reclaim The Net<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n Newly-obtained documents reveal.<\/p>\n In a sharp spotlight on the interplay between national security and individual privacy, newly disclosed documents have unveiled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered into a contract with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2018 to develop a project, dubbed \u201cNight Fury,\u201d designed to analyze and assign \u201crisk scores\u201d to social media accounts.<\/p>\n TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n The Brennan Center for Justice procured these documents through a public records request, and\u00a0Motherboard<\/a>\u00a0was the first to report on them. Project Night Fury aimed at utilizing automation to detect and evaluate social media accounts for connections to terrorism, illegal opioid distribution, but also disinformation campaigns.<\/p>\n The DHS document stated, \u201cThe Contractor shall develop these attributes to create a methodology for developing a ranking, or \u2018Risk Score,\u2019 associated with the identified accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n