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Social Media Vs. Organized Crime |
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informationweek.com |
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
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ICT for MDGs
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United States |
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Jul 28, 2011 |
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The National Security Agency (NSA) aims to use social media and improved data sharing as part of an enhanced strategy to fight organized crime in the United States and abroad.
The White House has launched the Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized
Crime to step up its efforts to fight this type of crime by better integrating
diverse work from various agencies that collect intelligence data and track and
investigate these types of criminals.
The new plan is the result of a year-long study of the current state of these
types of crimes, the most comprehensive of its kind in 15 years, according to a
White
House blog post.
The feds in general have been working across various agencies that are
responsible for crime investigations and the protection of the general
public--such as the FBI,
Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense--to better share
information. Often agencies with different responsibilities for investigation
don't communicate effectively with each other, a problem the federal government
has been trying to remedy through the use of technology.
The same is the case with those investigating organized crime, and the new
strategy aims to fix that by coordinating information sharing among various
organizations and specialized intelligence centers that are responsible for
handling these types of crimes.
This will involve the Cyber Crimes Center to coordinate the collection and
analysis of intelligence regarding various aspects of the threat from
transnational organized crime, according to the strategy,
which is posted online.
The plan also includes the NSA coordinating with the interagency
International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center (IOC-2) to use
existing resources and databases of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task
Force Fusion Center (OCDETF) and the Drug Enforcement Agency's Special
Operations Division to share intelligence and produce leads for investigators
and prosecutors working across the United States, according to the plan.
The IOC-2, formed in 2009, collects information from law-enforcement agencies
and federal prosecutors to fight organized crime, while the OCDETF--set up
2006--serves as a central warehouse for drug and financial intelligence as well
as provides cross-agency analysis and integration of that data.
Social networks also will play a role in helping the NSA track organized
criminals. Through the federal Open Source Center, which provides intelligence
information from around the world, the NSA will use social media, among other
online outlets, to develop profiles of individuals, companies and institutions
linked to transnational organized crime networks, according to the plan.
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