cyber surveillance

of course we all know it's going on. when we read about it though, with more facts brought to light, it IS rather daunting.

again, north korea? cuba? china? NOPE the good ol' usa!

Private intelligence firm targets The American Monitor


Devlin Buckley, 3/21/07
According to online statistics provided by The American Monitor’s Internet host, a private corporation specializing in online surveillance, Cyveillance Inc., has begun monitoring this site.1
Serving as a private quasi-intelligence-agency-for-hire and backed primarily by ABS Capital Partners,2 Cyveillance “proactively identifies and eliminates” online “threats” to their clients’ interests.3
Essentially, Cyveillance is paid by companies and governments to scan websites, blogs, news groups, auction sites, peer-to-peer networks, message boards, FTP clients, chat rooms, and email messages in search of anything their clients may find relevant—from negative publicity, to copyrighted material, to confidential information, to potential terrorist threats..........