Chat Rooms: A Tool for Terrorism

Recent studies prove that although terrorists may not be sharing information about planning attacks, they are lending ideas "for everything from propaganda to offering tips on kidnapping".

After gaining extensive knowledge of these "internet actions", a program used to identify and stop terrorism through internet chat rooms, has received a grant for $157,673. With the grant, the program will monitor traffic in the chat rooms for keywords and patterns in conversations. Their aim is to unveil "hidden communities" and secret codes used by terrorists to secretly communicate.

Although the program is relatively new and has not discovered anything too alarming, it has already raised many questions of concern. The primary concern being that of privacy. The program maintains that they are not violating any laws because the only chat rooms they use surveillance on are public ones.