Saturday, September 28, 2013
SNA at at the NSA
"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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Oh shoot! I just posted the same article. You beat me to it though.
The accompanying memo "authorizing" the use of "contact chaining" is also interesting.
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