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February 25, 2006
NSA shopping for pickaxes
NYTimes article regarding seemingly the same privacy concerns raised by other automated data miners.
"Mr. Arquilla, who was a consultant on Admiral Poindexter's Total Information Awareness project, said that the $40 billion spent each year by intelligence agencies had failed to exploit the power of data mining in correlating information readily available from public sources, like monitoring Internet chat rooms used by Al Qaeda. Instead, he said, the government has been investing huge sums in surveillance of phone calls of American citizens."
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Posted by ajs510 at February 25, 2006 09:52 AM
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