$64 million for the NSA to mine through social networks of terrorists (and US citizens ?)
It seems like the NSA is conducting a 3,5 years long $64 million worth research program on data mining maybe based on the eavesdropping of domestic and foreign phone calls and email exchanges. This program is called NIMD which stands for Novel Intelligence from Massive Data. Their approach is said to be based on the analysis of the social networks of people communicating one with another.
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March 2nd, 2006 at
is it ethical to perform such research work? i have my doubts and reservations…
April 24th, 2006 at
Ethics for the US government does not same to be the same as ethics for the European citizens… I hope someone will someday find some (more ethical and) really useful way to exploit social networks technologies for developping social inclusion for instance!