U.S. Gov To Spider Internet

HopeSeekr of xMule writes "Perhaps as one of the first high profile uses of Alexa's WebSearch Platform, the U.S. government plans to search, link and reference every news site, blog and email on the Internet, using sophisticated AI codenamed ADVISE to do the correlations. Unlike traditional dataveilance like Echelon, ADVISE aims to find terrorists before they strike and even deduce their motivations in wanting to commit their crimes. Part of the breakthrough is a way for humans to view data as 3D holographic images with tech recently used at the Superbowl."

Comments

Re:Wouldn't it be simpler...

[Pizentios]

They did, and google refused. See info here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060128/ts_afp/uscomp anyjusticeit_060128010230

Re:Spyware?

[magical_trevor]

I'm pretty sure it comes bundled with IE on windows XP, but since it collects data about sites you visit (although it can't be traced to you), many programs regard it as a form of spyware, I know Spybot S&D does.

Re:Robots

[Surt]

The nice thing is that if it doesn't, you can trap it forever in a recursive link search.

Re:Unlawful Search & Seizure

[bckrispi]

But by placing your content on the public Internet, it's in "plain sight". There's no warrant required to look at it.

Re:again..

[orthogonal]

This won't help dealing with the terrorists at all.

No, but it'll sure help keep the lid on political dissent, won't it?

Portions of this have already begun: the data mining only extends prior government watching of the web for "terrorists" like the ACLU. But not for political speech, of course. Never that.

So shut your mouth and shut down your blog and stop commenting here if you don't want to end up on a list of people to be "neutralized" -- like Mario Savio, hounded for ten years despite never breaking a law.

Savio's "crime" was, ironically, leading the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. We'd do well to remember today 0Savio's words then:

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even tacitly take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus. And you've got to make it stop.

No, the cat does not "got my tongue."

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

> The U.S. government plans to search, link and reference
> every news site, blog and email on the Internet, using
> sophisticated AI codenamed ADVISE to do the correlations.
> Unlike traditional dataveilance like Echelon, ADVISE aims
> to find terrorists before they strike and even deduce their
> motivations in wanting to commit their crimes.

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