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New Age Snooping

New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon\'s National Security Agency, which specializes in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass ...

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November 19, 2008 4:56 am

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New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specializes in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology – specifically the forthcoming “semantic web” to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.