Thursday, July 28, 2016

MIA buy equipment for the surveillance of users in social networks – The Russian Times

MOI for the Sverdlovsk Region has announced a tender for purchase of equipment for the surveillance of users in social networks. This was reported on the public procurement website.

According to media reports, police in Yekaterinburg reported on the forthcoming purchase of public procurement website. According to the application, the Ministry needs a software-analytical module “Zues” for the information system. Thanks to him, law enforcement agencies will be able to monitor the activity of any page on the social networks.

For example, to monitor who a user added as a friend, how often and with whom to communicate with, the videos and the photos published, writes about what on the wall. By the way, in one of the paragraphs of this terms of reference states that the system should provide a text keyword search, and private messages. The Interior Ministry confirmed this information Yekaterinburg. Office really wants to purchase a special module for the monitoring. The need for the system lies in the formulation of the duty, allegedly to counter extremism and terrorism in the region. Note that the security officials added that the “law-abiding citizens have nothing to worry about anything».

The TOR police uncut painted all the features of the new software, which is designed to spy on users of social networks. The new unit will be able to put the police on the automatic and permanent monitoring any user: to follow, he adds one to friends about what writes the posts, whether found in his publications search terms; in which groups the user enters, as the photos and video adds and removes, from whom and how often to communicate.

Optionally analysts software module even draw a graph of the social environment and user establish a possible link between users analyzing friends, relatives mediated friends, place of residence, and repost the overall group.

The system allows you to monitor user activity on social networks, including the addition of friends, join groups and other activities on your personal page. In addition, as stated in the terms of reference, the police need to get access to personal correspondence of users and be able to perform text searches.

As Znak.com notes, such a system is already in use in Novosibirsk, Samara, Tyumen and Lipetsk regions, KhMAO and Altai.


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