The cloud is old news, it’s “so three years ago,” and Big Data “was so last year,” but according to the CIA’s Chief Technology Officer, Ira “Gus” Hunt, this year is about “how to get value” from Big Data. At the GigaOM Structure Data conference, Hunt presented, “The CIA’s ‘Grand Challenges” with Big Data” and I highly recommend that you take about 30 minutes to personally listen to it.
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Rights Group Reports on Abuses of Surveillance and Censorship Technology
New York Times Last year, Mr. Marquis-Boire used computer servers to identify the use of an intelligence-oriented surveillance software program, called FinSpy, which was being used by Bahrain to track opposition activists. On a hunch last month, the researchers used … |
Chris Thompson / About Foursquare:
Foursquare revokes mayor editing rights — If a venue isn’t offering a mayor special, there are very few advantages to becoming a foursquare mayor. Yesterday foursquare reduced those benefits even further by taking away the right for mayors to edit their venues, leaving bragging rights as the only positive for becoming a mayor.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A high-ranking Homeland Security official says the agency will protect Americans’ civil liberties and privacy while it partners with the military to protect the nation’s computer networks. An agreement with the military …
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