…shit that makes my bloodpressure soar.

The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity….It is the federal government’s latest attempt to use broad data-collection and powerful analysis in the fight against terrorism. But by delving deeply into the digital minutiae of American life, the program is also raising concerns that the government is intruding too deeply into citizens’ privacy…Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE). ..ADVISE involves data-mining – or “dataveillance,” as some call it…

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