Tag Archives: data mining

CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: October 21, 2009

Slashdot Tuesday October 20 An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: “In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ‘open source intelligence’ [...]

Posted in Data Theft, Intelligence | Also tagged CIA, Data Theft, In-Q-Tel, Surveillance, Visible Technologies | Leave a comment

Report: Massive FBI database set to quadruple in size

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: September 23, 2009

It’s not unclear at all. Just where did you think all those stolen records over the past years were going? Identity theft didn’t take the kind of jump it should have with all those thefts, so it was going somewhere, and that somewhere was a massive database: Rawstory ‘Unclear’ how FBI got thousands of hotel, car rental, [...]

Posted in Data Theft, Intelligence | Also tagged database, FBI, National Security Branch Analysis Center, NSAC, Total Information Awareness | Leave a comment

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