Spy surge
Slate
by Fred Kaplan
07/18/07
A year and a half ago, passionate arguments broke out over reports about the National Security Agency’s ‘data-mining’ technologies. A couple of years earlier, the Pentagon attempted to fund a still-more intrusive program called the ‘Total Information Awareness’ network. (The latter effort failed, but the concept was almost certainly re-routed to the NSA or elsewhere.) Concerns were raised about privacy rights, the abuse of power, and the worth of such networks to begin with. Judging from the NIE (not just from these key passages but from its general assessment of a ‘persistent and evolving terrorist threat’), the debate over these vast surveillance systems will soon be renewed...
http://www.slate.com/id/2170643/fr/flyout
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data-mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=total+information+awareness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NSA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan
by Fred Kaplan
07/18/07
A year and a half ago, passionate arguments broke out over reports about the National Security Agency’s ‘data-mining’ technologies. A couple of years earlier, the Pentagon attempted to fund a still-more intrusive program called the ‘Total Information Awareness’ network. (The latter effort failed, but the concept was almost certainly re-routed to the NSA or elsewhere.) Concerns were raised about privacy rights, the abuse of power, and the worth of such networks to begin with. Judging from the NIE (not just from these key passages but from its general assessment of a ‘persistent and evolving terrorist threat’), the debate over these vast surveillance systems will soon be renewed...
http://www.slate.com/id/2170643/fr/flyout
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data-mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=total+information+awareness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NSA
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan
rudkla - 19. Jul, 18:20
