[privacy] Terrorist Profiling, Version 2.0

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http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/1020nj3.htm
 
Terrorist Profiling, Version 2.0 

By Shane  <mailto:sharris () nationaljournal com> Harris, National Journal
C National Journal Group Inc.
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006 


The government's top intelligence agency is building a computerized system
to search very large stores of information for patterns of activity that
look like terrorist planning. The system, which is run by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence, is in the early research phases and is
being tested, in part, with government intelligence that may contain
information on U.S. citizens and other people inside the country. 

It encompasses existing profiling and detection systems, including those
that create "suspicion scores" for suspected terrorists by analyzing very
large databases of government intelligence, as well as records of
individuals' private communications, financial transactions, and other
everyday activities. 


The details of the program, called Tangram, are contained in an unclassified
document that National Journal obtained from a government contracting Web
site. The document, called a "proposer's information packet," is a technical
description of Tangram written for potential contractors who would help
design and test the system. The document was written by officials in the
research-and-development section of the national intelligence office. A
tangram is an old Chinese puzzle that takes seven geometric shapes -- five
triangles, a square, and a parallelogram -- and rearranges them into
different pictures. 

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