1. Watching him watching you.
- Author
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Samuel, Eugenie
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ELECTRONIC surveillance , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *LIBERTY - Abstract
Latest surveillance technologies have raised number of apprehensions and doubts in minds of the U.S. citizens. But the author justifies that there is a way to spot terrorists using these technologies, without losing one's civil liberties. The Pentagon's research agency in the U.S., DARPA, has been working on a multimillion-dollar project that aims to develop tools to 'mine,' intelligence files and publicly available data for suspicious patterns in credit card bills, phone records, airline reservations, online news reports and other sources, allowing intelligence gathering on an unprecedented scale.
- Published
- 2003