{"id":2076,"date":"2006-01-05T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2006-01-05T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T09:32:11","slug":"data_mining_101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon&#8217;s Wishlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MUST Read:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.applefritter.com\/bannedbooks\">Tom Owad<\/a> writes about an issue we all need to be aware of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It used to be you had to get a warrant to monitor a person or a group of people. Today, it is increasingly easy to monitor ideas. And then track them back to people. Most of us don&#8217;t have access to the databases, software, or computing power of the NSA, FBI, and other government agencies. But an individual with access to the internet can still develop a fairly sophisticated profile of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens using free and publicly available resources. Here&#8217;s an example.<\/p>\n<p>There are many websites and databases that could be used for this project, but few things tell you as much about a person as the books he chooses to read. Isn&#8217;t that why the Patriot Act specifically requires libraries to release information on who&#8217;s reading what? For this reason, I chose to focus on the information contained in the popular Amazon wishlists.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MUST Read:Tom Owad writes about an issue we all need to be aware of: It used to be you had to get a warrant to monitor a person or a group of people. Today, it is increasingly easy to monitor ideas. And then track them back to people. Most of us don&#8217;t have access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}