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| Data Mining In Law Enforcement                                     |
|   from the can’t-they-just-google-it dept.                         |
|   posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 08, @19:05 (United States)   |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/08/2222254 |
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jcatcw points out a blog entry by Scott McPherson, CIO for the Florida
House of Representatives. McPherson condemns the state of [0]data sharing
and data mining in law enforcement, saying that the US causes itself a
great deal of trouble by focusing more on “antiterror armor and
nuke-sniffing devices” than a useful information distribution network. He
discusses a few such projects, and how they could have directly affected
the events of 9/11. Quoting: “One of those ingenious things that actually
worked, Seisint founder Hank Asher’s brilliant MATRIX system, remains
mired in controversy and politics. Hank showed me MATRIX just a few short
weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Using law enforcement data and commercial
data, all of the commercial data available in the public domain, Asher’s
query produced [hijacker Mohamed] Atta’s photo — and about 80 others,
many of them fellow 9/11 hijackers, many of them associates of the 9/11
hijackers. It was simple data mining and algorithms, and none of the
information was obtained illegally.”

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/08/2222254

Links:
0. http://blogs.computerworld.com/we_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us