NSA Looking at Social-Networking Spaces
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 | Justin Bugajski
Another interesting article coming off the UPI wire regarding the NSA going after MySpace and Facebook type sites in order to discover new patterns of behavior that may point to illicit activities when combined with other data sources.
This information, if collected and filtered correctly, can be combined with other harvested data to reveal information as to banking, retail and property records and eventually help fill in the picture of a potential terror suspect’s activities. Such an aid may prove extremely helpful to the intelligence community in its hunt for both terror suspects and criminals.
Are they barking up the wrong tree here? Or is it simply a matter of having access to as many data sources as possible, leaving options open for different analytical paths to follow?
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