Scientists question terrorist-hunting techniques
CNN
10/07/08
Two methods the federal government wants to use to find terrorists — ‘data mining’ and ‘behavior detection’ — are dubious scientifically and have ‘enormous potential’ for infringing on law-abiding Americans’ privacy, a consortium of scientists said. Data mining involves searching databases for suspicious and revealing relationships and patterns. But while the technique is useful in commercial settings to detect credit card fraud, it is questionable whether data mining can detect and pre-empt terrorist attacks, the National Research Council said...
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10/07/08
Two methods the federal government wants to use to find terrorists — ‘data mining’ and ‘behavior detection’ — are dubious scientifically and have ‘enormous potential’ for infringing on law-abiding Americans’ privacy, a consortium of scientists said. Data mining involves searching databases for suspicious and revealing relationships and patterns. But while the technique is useful in commercial settings to detect credit card fraud, it is questionable whether data mining can detect and pre-empt terrorist attacks, the National Research Council said...
http://tinyurl.com/4m5tgp
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=data+mining
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=behavior+detection
rudkla - 8. Okt, 14:41
