Newly Declassified FBI Docs Reveal Predictive Data System 185
An anonymous reader writes 'Newly declassified documents show that the FBI is developing a data-mining system to uncover terror sleeper cells. Among the 1.6 billion records in the National Security Analysis Center — tens of thousands of travel records, including hotel and airline records. Other revelations in the documents uncovered by a Wired.com FOIA request show that the feds want to expand the system for use in cyber-crime investigations, and it's already been used to scrutinize helicopter pilots and Philly cab drivers. The system has eerie resemblances to DARPA's once-banned Total Information Awareness program."
Re:Give up? (Score:2, Informative)
not that I'm a bitter federal employee managing a POS database or anything...
Re:Wow, What a Shock... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I've got an idea (Score:3, Informative)
When have you heard about a political speech and reality having any connection?
Oooh, I have one! It even has its own article in Wikipedia [wikipedia.org].
Re:I've got an idea (Score:3, Informative)
When have you heard about a political speech and reality having any connection?
Oooh, I have one! It even has its own article in Wikipedia [wikipedia.org].
Fixed that for you... (And yes, someone ought to tell the Slashcode monkeys that 7-bit ASCII is only sufficient for 5% of the world's population...)
RAW (Score:3, Informative)
-Oz
Re:Give up? (Score:3, Informative)
From the effing article:
"It's unclear how the FBI got the records."
Geez, TIA has been in operation for some time now: all those gazillion government contractors supplying realtime data (from First Data to the clowns who operate the toll booth cameras to the Pay-for-view Viacom, etc., etc., etc.) with SAIC being the number one intel contractor, Mantech, etc., and who does the background checks for the federal government? Pearson Govt. Svcs. owned by Veritas Capital, the folks who used to own DynCorp, with the remainder done by XE (formerly Blackwater), and USIS (Carlyle Group).
Re:I've got an idea (Score:2, Informative)