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				...and Big Brother will keep watching
				Posted: 2/9/2006, 12:24 pm
				by Axtech
				
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/9/2006, 1:46 pm
				by magicseamonkey
				You know...I hardly find this surprising...and from the sounds of it, they've been doing it for some time already.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/9/2006, 4:04 pm
				by Axtech
				
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/9/2006, 5:22 pm
				by faninor
				Data mining isn't new. I'm slightly surprised that they would put this much work into it though because it easily results in information being wrongly linked together and arresting innocent people based off of that information.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/9/2006, 5:24 pm
				by faninor
				But since we are talking about the internet here, it should just be a hugely detailed, cross-referenced index of porn. SWEET!
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/9/2006, 5:34 pm
				by Axtech
				haha, Josh is off to get a job with the US government!
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/9/2006, 10:08 pm
				by bovine
				The ENTIRE Internet  
 
Don't they kind of have their hands full as it is?   

 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/10/2006, 3:07 am
				by Korzic
				Why is this big news? My data gets mined all the time in my spam inbox
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/10/2006, 6:42 am
				by nikki4982
				Oh goody! Dubya can get a detailed report about my lack of a life. 
faninor wrote:Data mining isn't new. I'm slightly surprised that they would put this much work into it though because it easily results in information being wrongly linked together and arresting innocent people based off of that information.
You act like the US government actually cares if they arrest innocent people.
 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/10/2006, 8:28 pm
				by Rusty
				The question is, would information obtained from the internet in such a manner hold up in a court of law?
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/10/2006, 8:35 pm
				by faninor
				The good thing is that this doesn't matter because the existence of the Internet as we know it is currently threatened by communication companies anyway.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/10/2006, 8:42 pm
				by Rusty
				I wonder if the Cm has ever been redflagged. I mean we post a lot of messages, maybe it appears suspicious. 

 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/10/2006, 8:46 pm
				by faninor
				nikki4982 wrote:Oh goody! Dubya can get a detailed report about my lack of a life. 
faninor wrote:Data mining isn't new. I'm slightly surprised that they would put this much work into it though because it easily results in information being wrongly linked together and arresting innocent people based off of that information.
You act like the US government actually cares if they arrest innocent people.
 
And yeah... maybe I'm crazy, but I honestly think that the government much rather be arresting the actual Robert William Fisher than, say, someone else with the same first and last name. They ought to be able to come up with a more efficient way of snooping. 

 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/11/2006, 7:45 am
				by Kathy
				Rusty wrote:I wonder if the Cm has ever been redflagged. I mean we post a lot of messages, maybe it appears suspicious. 

 
Good point!  
To anyone out there watching/listening... we're harmless, honest!!

 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 2/11/2006, 3:09 pm
				by closeyoureyes
				What's Datamining?