{"id":275,"date":"2004-05-27T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2004-05-27T21:34:37","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T21:34:37","slug":"government_data_mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Government Data Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/200405\/msg00154.html\">Barry Steinhardt referenced<\/a> today&#8217;s GAO Report on Government Data Mining (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d04548.pdf\">full report &#8211; PDF<\/a>) &#8211; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/highlights\/d04548high.pdf\">Highlights PDF<\/a>).  Steinhardt mentions four programs of special concern:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Verity K2 Enterprise &#8211; Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Mines data &#8220;to identify foreign terrorists or U.S. citizens connected to foreign terrorism activities.&#8221; (Page 30 of GAO report)\n<li>Analyst Notebook I2 &#8211; Department of Homeland Security.  &#8220;Correlates events and people to specific information.&#8221; (p. 44)\n<li>PATHFINDER &#8211; DIA.  &#8220;Can compare and search multiple large databases quickly&#8221; and &#8220;analyze government and private sector databases.&#8221; (p. 30)\n<li>Case Management Data Mart &#8211; DHS. &#8220;Assists in managing law enforcement cases&#8221; Using private-sector data. (p. 44)<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Steinhardt referenced today&#8217;s GAO Report on Government Data Mining (full report &#8211; PDF) &#8211; (Highlights PDF). Steinhardt mentions four programs of special concern: Verity K2 Enterprise &#8211; Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Mines data &#8220;to identify foreign terrorists or U.S. citizens connected to foreign terrorism activities.&#8221; (Page 30 of GAO report) Analyst Notebook I2 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}