From Pine View Farm

The Facebook Frolics Files 3

Fed app with it all.

The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material “scraped” from social networks.

It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps “using mash-up technology”.

Absolutely nothing could go wrong with this.

Also, pigs, wings.

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3 comments

  1. George

    January 27, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    What if, like, the place you have on Facebook as where you live isn’t really where you live? What’s the “disgruntlement” index in the “scrapings” — that is, when does a complaint or a whinge or a bad attitude wind up in a database? DIDO — dogshit in, dogshit out.

     
  2. George

    January 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    My other question is howcum software and automation apps for this kind of stuff always results in more people being hired at the FBI and private security contractors but software and automation apps for everything else always results in people being fired because they waste money and are obsolete?

     
  3. Frank

    January 27, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    More fear means more consultants.  More data means more database administrators.  

    The guvmint’s faith in automation is so simple and touched touching.