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Newly Declassified FBI Docs Reveal Predictive Data System

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-creepy-ad-for-ibm dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I've got an idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The least likely guy is here.

  2. Re:I've got an idea by blackraven14250 · · Score: -1, Troll

    ....when they use the same words to refer to the same thing, which they do constantly on a given side, even though the word they use may mean something totally different. If a republican says "freedom", they mean "freedom to make money off of you". If a democrat says "freedom", they mean "freedom of choice". You can really do this, you just have to translate given who is saying it.

  3. Re:I've got an idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slash butchered the ever-living fuck out of that link. Good job with the unicode support, niggers. What is this, 1975?

    Here's correct link, hiding behind a tinyurl: http://preview.tinyurl.com/yhg3xb