House Panel To Question DHS Social Media Monitoring

House Panel To Question DHS Social Media Monitoring A House Homeland Security subcommittee will press law enforcement officials on Thursday about policies for monitoring social media.

A Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence hearing on the department's monitoring of social media will feature testimony from DHS chief privacy officer Mary Ellen Callahan, and Richard Chávez, director of the DHS Office of Operations Coordination and Planning.

News reports have indicated that law enforcement officials have increased efforts to gather information from social media websites, but on Wednesday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano told the full House Homeland Security Committee her agency isn’t “sitting there monitoring social media” looking for evidence of terrorism.