Posted on 02/13/2012 5:05:55 PM PST by lyby
The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Hundreds of intelligence analysts already sift overseas Twitter and Facebook posts to track events such as the Arab Spring. But in a formal "request for information" from potential contractors, the FBI recently outlined its desire for a digital tool to scan the entire universe of social media — more data than humans could ever crunch.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Did they really screw up the title that bad?
OOPS!! TYPO!!!! “MINE” NOT “MIND” - must have been one of those “Freudian slips”!! Please smile!!!
Yeahhhh,
to identify and finger Obamastate enemy, tea party ....
Yeahhhh,
to identify and finger Obamastate enemy, tea party ....
WTH is your comment supposed to mean?!
Oh yeh, and a few other things while they are in there mining the data.
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