[HIB]DHS signals more internet monitoring in US

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano has said that in the future there will be increased internet monitoring of US citizens in response to the dangers of terrorism. In a speech to the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Napolitano said that recent domestic terrorism cases had shown that the internet was used to gather information for attacks. As a result the US was beefing up its monitoring capabilities and there would be a trade-off with individual's privacy. "The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet," Napolitano said, according to Associated Press.

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