New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication

An anonymous reader writes "PRODIGAL (Proactive Discovery of Insider Threats Using Graph Analysis and Learning) is a recently uncovered U.S. government program created in partnership with the Georgia Tech School of Computational Science and Engineering, ostensibly to monitor IMs, texts, and emails on government networks, is feared to be turned on the U.S. population at large. From the article: 'Cherie Anderson runs a travel company in southern California, and she's convinced the federal government is reading her emails. But she's all right with that. "I assume it's part of the Patriot Act and I really don't mind," she says. "I figure I'm probably boring them to death."'"

Comments

What's the definition of "prodigal"?

[khasim]

People always get that bit confused. What it REALLY means is
"A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way."

Nice name for this program.

Re:it does matter

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Theres a saying ive seen on here, around the net

        First they came for the Communists,
        but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.

        Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists,
        but I was neither, so I did not speak out.

        Then they came for the Jews,
        but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.

        And when they came for me,
        there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemoller