Stanley wrote that among the many problems with government large-scale analytics of social network information “is the prospect that government agencies will blunderingly use these techniques to tag, target and watchlist people coughed up by programs such as RIOT, or to target them for further invasions of privacy based on incorrect inferences.” “The chilling effects of such activities,” he concluded, “while perhaps gradual, would be tremendous.” Ginger McCall, attorney and director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Open Government program, told NBC in February, “This sort of software allows the government to surveil everyone. “It scoops up a bunch of information about totally innocent people. There seems to be no legitimate reason to get this, other than that they can.” As for RIOT’s ability to help catch terrorists, McCall called it “a lot of white noise.” Read more at wnd/2013/06/obama-mining-facebook-twitter-to-predict-crimes/#kIocIbCJRTYJpFls.99
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:36:26 +0000
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