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Data-mining sucks: official report

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A multi-year National Research Council review of data-mining as a means of discovering terrorists has concluded that this just doesn't work very well, and that it ends up harming and harassing -- and terrorizing -- innocents whose only crime is to have a profile that some database-designer thinks is hinky. The report was written by a committee whose members include William Perry, a professor at … Continue Reading »

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