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U.S. Gov To Spider Internet

Posted by Zonk on from the dog-house-farm-house-chicken-house-outhouse dept.

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."

2 of 436 comments (clear)

  1. robots.txt by dindi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am sure they will obey robots.txt and they will present a uniq user agent string.

    YEAH RIGHT!

  2. Re:Spyware? by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No it's not bundled with IE - it probably installed itself when you were browsing.