http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/ Switched Comments for FBI Gets Caught Digging Too Deep http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Feb 14th 2008 7:23PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Feb 14th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/]]>Feb 14th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Feb 14th 2008 8:56PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/
This is "guilt by association", something that this country was founded to prevent! How many of our fathers, brothers, sons, daughters, sisters and mothers have died over the last 232 years so that we would be convicted for criminal acts, not for who we know or associate with!
As soon as we allow the terrorists to scare us into abandoning the very principles that define our nation...they have won!

I don't want to see a single american die at the hands of terrorists, BUT, as Americans we should all be willing to die to protect the principles and rights on which this country and democracy were founded! Allowing the government carte blanche freedom to spy on us, abandons those rights, in which case, we might as well just burn the constitution and the Bill of Rights, because we will have allowed our fears to render them useless. This whole thing reeks of McCarthyism!]]>Feb 15th 2008 12:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Feb 15th 2008 4:41AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Feb 25th 2008 4:52AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/
Result: Hot groups and individuals show up, as well as, new contacts, which of course become elevated, themselves, and so on...

Fascinating stuff, but the potential for abuse is as big as the imagination of the analyst...

If it *really is* just employed on 'terror suspects' (and the definition of terrorist, remains un-ambiguous), then it could be a very potent weapon, in war on terror. Used on the general populace, for intelligence gathering, social mapping and even marketing, well, it could be bad.

This sounds more like the NSA, than the FBI's area of expertise. Perhaps, this reflects increased cooperation, between agencies... I don't know.

I would find it interesting to know, just how the tons of 'call detail' are being utilized... For billing puposes? Or, for human studies?

Done right, it (data-mining) is OK, but I am mistrustful, until convinced otherwise, when dealing with cutomer/citizen data.
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I would have to take issue with that statement. In terrorism prevention, the best things to use are the old investigatory techniques (talking to friends of suspects, talking to employers, talking to neighbors, etc.).
Data mining appears to be a good way to ferret out terrorism suspects..... until you realize that there is so much data, that data mining is absolutely USELESS in all reality.]]>Sep 10th 2007 9:45PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Sep 11th 2007 9:20AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Sep 11th 2007 9:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Sep 13th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/ THE COMMUNISTS STARTED TAKEING OVER THE SCHOOLS
AND COLLEGE "TEACHING" IN THE 60s.AND TO DATE
"THIS" IS WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO!!!
"DESTROY AMERICA FROM WITHIN"!!!
"THEY" ARE THE ONES THAT "DO NOT" WANT AMERICA
TO BE ABLE TO KEEP TRACK OF "THEM' AND THEIR
"TERRORIST ALLIES"]]>Sep 16th 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/10/fbi-gets-caught-digging-too-deep/Sep 17th 2007 12:54PM