Social Media Intelligence Gathering SOCMINT

Most of the Snowden revelations concentrate on the United States but please note this comment of Snowden on the UK.

 "It's not just a US problem. The UK has a huge dog in this fight," Snowden told the Guardian. "They [GCHQ] are worse than the US."

The above video is about a unit in the London Metropolitan Police and is just one part of the jigsaw of the monitoring and survelliance by the British State that is clearly out of control and outside any regulatory or supervisory ability of the working people of the UK.

For further information read :
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/26/socmint

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCMINT