NSA To Datamine Social Networking Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 9, 2006 @02:56AM from the go-where-the-data-is dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist has discovered that the NSA is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in Internet technology -- specifically the forthcoming 'semantic web' championed by the Web standards organisation W3C -- to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."

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Re:I feel safer already! by Billosaur · 2006-06-09 03:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's good to see such huge advances in domestic spying instead of things like stem cell research.

I know it's modded "Funny," but there's a grain fo truth to it. Just how much is getting spent on this? How much money does the Federal government waste on such programs while our schools, our healthcare system, and our veterans go wanting?

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