Discuss the CIA’s so-called Open Source Center, established in 2005, which has been collecting information from publicly accessible Internet sources such as blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites, in addition to monitoring radio and television programs.

DEA Social Networking Presentation Discusses how to use social networking sites and social media in investigations.

FBI Intelligence Information Report Handbook which mentions using “covert accounts” to access protected information.

Secret Service Internet Use Policy. Includes recommendations on how to avoid leaving “electronic footprints” by using “stand-alone” computers with “anonymous accounts from an ISP” during surveillance.

2008 ODNI study on the potential of Internet searches in government security clearances