Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
You have to wade through a lot to reach the good news at the end of Time reporter Joel Stein’s article about “data mining”—or at least data collection and use—in the online world. There’s some fog right there: what he calls “data mining” is actually ordinary one-to-one correlation of bits of information, not mining historical [...]
It sounds a little bit like the “pre-crime” unit featured in the 2002 film “Minority Report,” but news that Washington, D.C. will implement software to “predict” crime is not quite as worrisome as it might seem at first blush. Beginning several years ago, the researchers assembled a dataset of more than 60,000 various crimes, including [...]
A number of conservative blogs have picked up on reports that the Obama administration is looking to data mine users on social networking sites. Reports CNS News: Anyone who posts comments on the White House’s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to [...]
Jeff Jonas has published an important post: “Your Movements Speak for Themselves: Space-Time Travel Data is Analytic Super-Food!” More than you probably realize, your mobile device is a digital sensor, creating records of your whereabouts and movements: Mobile devices in America are generating something like 600 billion geo-spatially tagged transactions per day. Every call, text [...]
Indiana University law professor Fred Cate writes with characteristic thoroughness and organization in his article Government Data Mining: The Need for a Legal Framework, published in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review this summer. It took me a while to get around to reading it – a little longer to write it up. Don’t [...]
February 14, 2012
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