{"id":5199,"date":"2013-06-10T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2013-06-10T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:39:37","slug":"using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kieran Healy<\/a>: <\/p>\n

I have been asked by my superiors to give a brief demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the simplest techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke Analysis in the pursuit of those who would seek to undermine the liberty enjoyed by His Majesty\u2019s subjects. This is in connection with the discussion of the role of \u201cmetadata\u201d in certain recent events<\/a> and the assurances of various respectable parties<\/a> that the government was merely \u201csifting through this so-called metadata\u201d and that the \u201cinformation acquired does not include the content of any communications\u201d. I will show how we can use this \u201cmetadata\u201d to find key persons involved in terrorist groups operating within the Colonies at the present time. I shall also endeavour to show how these methods work in what might be called a relational manner.<\/p>\n

The analysis in this report is based on information gathered by our field agent Mr David Hackett Fischer<\/a> and published in an Appendix to his lengthy report to the government<\/a>. As you may be aware, Mr Fischer is an expert and respected field Agent with a broad and deep knowledge of the colonies. I, on the other hand, have made my way from Ireland with just a little quantitative training\u2014I placed several hundred rungs below the Senior Wrangler during my time at Cambridge\u2014and I am presently employed as a junior analytical scribe at ye olde National Security Administration. Sorry, I mean the Royal Security Administration. And I should emphasize again that I know nothing of current affairs in the colonies. However, our current Eighteenth Century beta of PRISM has been used to collect and analyze information on more than two hundred and sixty persons (of varying degrees of suspicion) belonging variously to seven different organizations in the Boston area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kieran Healy: I have been asked by my superiors to give a brief demonstration of the surprising effectiveness of even the simplest techniques of the new-fangled Social Networke Analysis in the pursuit of those who would seek to undermine the liberty enjoyed by His Majesty\u2019s subjects. This is in connection with the discussion of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199"}],"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=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}