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

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.'"

Comments

Riiight...

[Etherwalk]

So it's mining for a mix of deliberate misinformation and incompetence?

I mean, couldn't you just get that from Congress?

Is it better to be visible?

[Thanshin]

When you decide to dedicate part of your life to annoy powerful people who regularly break the law and later become immune to the consequences, at some point you have to decide whether to try to be invisible, risking a mistake that could make you disappear; or trying to be as visible as possible, to make it too cumbersome to dispose of you.

I wonder how does one take that decision.

This is at least two years old

[wiredog]

From June 2013, Job Networking Site LinkedIn Filled With Secret NSA Program Names.