US profiling program raises fears
US government technologists testing a proposed new data-mining system may already have violated privacy laws by, "reviewing real information, instead of fake data".
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11495
From Information Clearing House
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Anti-terror tests broke law, says watchdog
Tennessean
03/01/07
The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. The new program, similar to a Pentagon program that Congress killed in 2003 over concerns about civil liberties, could take effect as soon as next year. But system testers probably already have violated privacy laws by reviewing real information, instead of fake data, a source familiar with a congressional investigation into the $42.5 million program told The Washington Post. The program, called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), is on the cutting edge of analytical technology that applies mathematical algorithms to uncover hidden relationships in data. The idea is to troll a vast sea of information and extract suspicious people, places and other elements based on their links and behavioral patterns...
http://tinyurl.com/ypb4n8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data-mining
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11495
From Information Clearing House
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Anti-terror tests broke law, says watchdog
Tennessean
03/01/07
The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. The new program, similar to a Pentagon program that Congress killed in 2003 over concerns about civil liberties, could take effect as soon as next year. But system testers probably already have violated privacy laws by reviewing real information, instead of fake data, a source familiar with a congressional investigation into the $42.5 million program told The Washington Post. The program, called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), is on the cutting edge of analytical technology that applies mathematical algorithms to uncover hidden relationships in data. The idea is to troll a vast sea of information and extract suspicious people, places and other elements based on their links and behavioral patterns...
http://tinyurl.com/ypb4n8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data-mining
rudkla - 2. Mär, 13:32
