{"id":4974,"date":"2013-02-12T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2013-02-12T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:42:10","slug":"software-that-tracks-people-on-social-media-created-by-defence-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/feb\/10\/software-tracks-social-media-defence\">Ryan Gallagher:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people&#8217;s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.<\/p>\n<p>A video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/video\/2013\/feb\/08\/raytheon-secret-software-tracking-personal-movements-video\">obtained by the Guardian reveals<\/a> how an &#8220;extreme-scale analytics&#8221; system created by Raytheon, the world&#8217;s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.<\/p>\n<p>Raytheon says it has not sold the software \u2013 named Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology \u2013 to any clients.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;trillions of entities&#8221; from cyberspace.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Gallagher: A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people&#8217;s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an &#8220;extreme-scale analytics&#8221; system created by Raytheon, the world&#8217;s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974"}],"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=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}