DHS IG Scrutinizing Data Mining Prototype
Alice Lipowicz writes on GCN.com:
The Homeland Security Department’s Science & Technology Directorate’s data mining prototype is receiving in-depth scrutiny from the department’s inspector general.More here.
The DHS IG plans to review the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement, or Advise, program, over the next several months to determine how well it is meeting its goals in identifying potential threats, according to the IG’s just-released fiscal 2007 Annual Performance Plan.
The $40 million program is designed to extract terrorist threat information from large amounts of data. It and other data mining programs are criticized by privacy advocates because they sift through large amounts of personal information.
posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2006 10:42:00 AM
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