LinkedIn Used To Create Database of 27,000 US Intelligence Personnel

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 6, 2015 @07:09PM from the running-the-numbers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new group, Transparency Toolkit, has mined LinkedIn to reveal and analyze the resumes of over 27,000 people in the U.S. intelligence community. In the process, Transparency Toolkit said it found previously unknown secret codewords and references to surveillance technologies and projects. "'Transparency Toolkit uses open data to watch the watchers and hold the powerful to account,' the group's website says. 'We build free software to collect and analyze open data from a variety of sources. Then we work with investigative journalists and human rights organizations to turn that into useful, actionable knowledge. Currently, our primary focuses are investigating surveillance and human rights abuses.'"

1 of 82 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Now do the same for Russian & NK? by Viol8 · 2015-05-06 21:55 · Score: -1, Troll

"Yet here you are, in your armchair picking safe fights with people on a harmless Internet forum. Bravo."
If you think I was picking a fight then you obviously have anger management issues and an inability to distinguish a threat from a disagreement. I'd recommend you seek help before you get into trouble on the street.