[governance] Alarming - Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm - Guardian

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Thanks for sharing, Fouad.

But... alarming? Social Network Analysis is not new and can be done very
easily using *free* tools that you can download on-line. You don't need
Raytheon to sell you something costing millions of dollars for that.

Here's a little concept study I did a few years ago.
http://www.slideshare.net/ocl999/a-study-of-internet-rfc-authors-using-netdraw-and-yed

... and I guess, the very fact I am replying to your post now links us. :-)

Kind regards,

Olivier


On 10/02/2013 16:41, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
> This is indeed very alarming -
>
> Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence
>
> Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
> 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.
>
> Raytheon says it has not sold the software – named Riot, or Rapid
> Information Overlay Technology – to any clients.
>
> But the Massachusetts-based company has acknowledged the technology
> was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research
> and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security
> system capable of analysing "trillions of entities" from cyberspace.
>
> The power of Riot to harness popular websites for surveillance offers
> a rare insight into controversial techniques that have attracted
> interest from intelligence and national security agencies, at the same
> time prompting civil liberties and online privacy concerns.
>
>
>
> * Sharing for information purposes only.
>

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html


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