Friday, March 16, 2012

Data Mining: Terrifying Terrorists

Source: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2zn4z6q4#page-2

The article I am posting is about the use of data mining to track suspicious behavior in people that may or may not be part of terrorist plot and organizations. Dataveillence is a term used to describe this type of data mining procedure, it involves taking and collecting data from various travel services, sites, and other government sources and compiling it into a large database. From this database then an algorithm is applied and usable data is then shown as output. This data is used to find inconsistencies that may point out terrorists and plot before it happens.
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  1. JamarBarnettApril 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM

    I understand why they do this, but I just want to know is this data mining efficient in finding terrorist. Only part I could think of the terrorist that just make one move and do not do anything suspicious until something goes down.

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