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By: Valdis
Date: May 13, 2006 11:07 PM
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« social psych and social network analysis | Main | Science article: Finding Criminals Through DNA of Their Relatives »
11 May 2006
NSA data collections
In my earlier postings on the NSA data gathering program, I posed the question, what data would I want if I were the NSA, and all I cared about was potentially detecting terrorist activity, etc. My answer was simply, I would want them all. Further, I pointed out that the principles laid out by the administration did little to point to any line short of "all" that was desirable. Why stop with international calls? etc.
This was closer to the truth than I imagined, per USAToday story that broke today. Excerpts:
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.
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In defending the previously disclosed program, Bush insisted that the NSA was focused exclusively on international calls. "In other words," Bush explained, "one end of the communication must be outside the United States."…
Sources, however, say that is not the case. With access to records of billions of domestic calls, the NSA has gained a secret window into the communications habits of millions of Americans.
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The data are used for "social network analysis," the official said, meaning to study how terrorist networks contact each other and how they are tied together.
Posted by David Lazer at May 11, 2006 9:11 PM
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I got involved in the debate after the USA Today story ran... I didn't think the approach, as described in the article, made a lot of sense.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002399.html
Jeff Jonas, an expert at catching bad guys via "link analysis" seems to agree...
http://jeffjonas.typepad.com/jeff_jonas/2006/05/sometimes_a_big.html
Posted by: Valdis at May 13, 2006 11:07 PM