FBI Wants Machine Learning Tools To Track Mobile Messaging Sites
January 27, 2021 12:20 PM By Chris Cornillie The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking software and expertise to monitor social media accounts and mobile messaging platforms for possible terrorist activity, according to procurement documents. The FBI released a Jan. 21 request for information under the ambiguous title âInformation Technology Services.â Attached to the listing is a document outlining the bureauâs interest in software tools âutilizing machine-learning modelsâ to assist FBI agents in analyzing large, open-source data sets. The document s...