http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/29/nsa-contractors-linkedinprofiles.html?utm_campaign=wklynewsletter052914&utm_source=editorialnewsletter&utm_medium=email

Job websites such as LinkedIn and Indeed.com contain hundreds of profiles that reference classified NSA efforts, posted by everyone from career government employees to low-level IT workers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. They offer a rare glimpse into the intelligence community's projects and how they operate. Now some researchers are using the same kinds of big-data tools employed by the NSA to scrape public LinkedIn profiles for classified programs. But the presence of so much classified information in public view raises serious concerns about security - and about the intelligence industry as a whole.....


NSA spokeswoman Marci Green Miller said the agency requires all current and former personnel - including contractors and military members - to submit for prepublication review<http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/prepub/index.shtml> "any information intended for public disclosure which is or may be based on protected information while associated with NSA/CSS [Central Security Service]." But Miller did not respond to a question about whether the NSA has reviewed or cleared any of the numerous LinkedIn and Indeed profiles that reference classified programs. She also did not respond to questions about whether the NSA monitors these sites for violations of its policies, or whether it has ever contacted individuals about profiles that reference classified information. LinkedIn and Indeed both declined to comment on the specific issue.



David B. Gaynon
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