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FBI’s Most Wanted: A Social Media Monitoring Tool – TechNewsWorld


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By Rachelle Dragani An FBI listing on FedBizOpps.gov is putting out the call for developers to submit software capable of automatically monitoring social media channels for he purpose of detecting criminal activity. "Given the overwhelming volume of
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