The US Naval Ministry intends to create a “large-scale global historical archive of data from a social network,” which will include 350 billion records of Internet users.
“The main requirement for this study is the creation of a large-scale global historical archive of data from a social network containing the full text of all public records made in all countries and in all languages covered by the platform,” the US Naval Ministry’s study said in a statement. which RT has read.
According to the document, the required data should consist of records taken from the same social network, but it does not indicate which one.
So, the States are looking for a contractor who would compile an archive of 200 million unique Internet users from 100 countries from records and comments that are publicly available.
“Each entry in the archive must contain the full text of the publication in the social network with preservation of the original content and formatting, as well as all public meta-data, including country, language, hashtags, location, user name, time stamp and links related to the original publication” , - stated in the document.
The military department emphasizes that all records must contain the time and date of sending the message, as well as the user name associated with this message.
According to the document, such an archive is necessary for a deeper understanding of the foundations of social dynamics and modeling the evolution of linguistic communities, as well as the emergence of new types of collective expression of opinion over time and in various countries.
In August 2018, it became known about the plans of the Pentagon to develop a new anonymous mobile messenger that is resistant to hacking.