This blog contains posts starting in 2008 from students at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and Hult International Business School. This is an excellent resource for information about all types of social networks, research strategies, and analytic techniques.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
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"Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html?hp&_r=0
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I don't find this revelation particularly surprising, but the details are interesting.
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ReplyDeleteOh shoot! I just posted the same article. You beat me to it though.
ReplyDeleteThe accompanying memo "authorizing" the use of "contact chaining" is also interesting.
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