Topic: Military families

US Army to spy on soldiers, family blogs

April 12, 2008 |

The US Army has formed an “Army Web Risk Assessment Cell” to spy on the personal blogs and forum posts of soldiers and their families, according to a confidential military document released today by the transparency group Wikileaks.

The cell is to “Conduct routine checks of web sites on the World Wide Web for disclosure of critical and/or sensitive information that is deemed a potential OPSEC compromise.”

Web sites include, but are not limited to, “Family Readiness Group (FRG) pages, unofficial Army web sites, Soldier’s web logs (blogs), and personal published or unpublished works related to the Army.” «Read the rest of this article»

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