Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
Ryan Gallagher - 10 February 2013
Exclusive: Raytheon’s Riot program mines social network data like a ‘Google for spies’, drawing ire from civil rights groups
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.
A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
Tags: Surveillance State
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February 18th, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Regarding: video obtained by the Guardian
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February 18th, 2013 at 4:27 pm
That’s their fault. But it’s still embedded at the link here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence