Data mining can't improve our security
Cato Institute
by Jim Harper
12/08/06
When the Department of Homeland Security put into effect its Automated Targeting System this week, it added to a growing list of programs that use information about ordinary Americans to seek after terrorists. An outgrowth of systems used to track cargo, ATS now assigns a 'risk score' to Americans crossing the border, using data about them from a wide variety of databases. ATS appears to use data mining to single out people as suspected terrorists or criminals. If data mining worked to catch terrorists, a program like ATS would deserve widespread endorsement. Unfortunately, data mining does not have this capability...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6832
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+mining
by Jim Harper
12/08/06
When the Department of Homeland Security put into effect its Automated Targeting System this week, it added to a growing list of programs that use information about ordinary Americans to seek after terrorists. An outgrowth of systems used to track cargo, ATS now assigns a 'risk score' to Americans crossing the border, using data about them from a wide variety of databases. ATS appears to use data mining to single out people as suspected terrorists or criminals. If data mining worked to catch terrorists, a program like ATS would deserve widespread endorsement. Unfortunately, data mining does not have this capability...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6832
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+mining
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