Data-mining for terrorists sparks U.S. privacy fears
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Crime DB Sparks Privacy Fears
Crime DB Sparks Privacy Fears
07/19/2004 04:56 AMThe Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, a database known
as Matrix, combines state vehicle and crime records with commercial
files owned by a private company. Privacy advocates cry foul as feds
gain access to masses of info on individuals.
Data mining firm names 'statistically
likely' terrorists
Data mining firm names 'statistically
likely' terrorists
05/21/2004 08:18 AMGoogle sparks mania fears
Google sparks mania fears
05/01/2004 08:08 PMSunday Herald May 1 2004 11:19PM GMT
Stent advisory sparks patient fears
Stent advisory sparks patient fears
11/01/2003 09:42 AMBoston Globe Nov 1 2003 9:10AM ET
IRS notice sparks VoIP taxation fears
IRS notice sparks VoIP taxation fears
07/08/2004 03:30 PMCNET Jul 8 2004 8:21PM GMT
Gmail sparks privacy row
Gmail sparks privacy row
05/31/2004 03:25 PMNews.bbc.co.uk - Fri May 28, 10:58 am GMT
E-mail tracker firm sparks fears over
internet security
E-mail tracker firm sparks fears over
internet security
05/23/2004 07:43 PMTelegraph May 23 2004 9:58PM GMT
Privacy-friendly P2P app Grouper sparks
Hollywood ire
Privacy-friendly P2P app Grouper sparks
Hollywood ire
04/14/2005 10:48 PMXeni Jardin:
An
LA Times story on
Grouper, a P2P app which enables
groups of up to 30 to swap files in an encrypted "space." Advocates
praise the system's value for sharing sensitive personal content (like
videos of your child, or batches of family photos), but Hollywood is
not amused.
Like Kazaa and other popular file-sharing programs, Grouper allows
[USC law professor Jennifer] Urban to copy movies and pictures of
young Peter directly from her brother and sister-in-law's computer
without worrying about formats or oversized e-mail attachments. Unlike
those global networks with millions of users, though, Grouper also
lets Urban pick and choose with whom she shares online — and sets a
strict limit of 30 people per group.
"I'm very attracted to the privacy afforded by having a private group
protected by encryption, particularly for sharing letters, family
photos, movies, etc.," Urban said. "This isn't the case with other
peer-to-peer networks."
What makes Grouper troubling to some entertainment industry executives
are the other things people can do with it. For example, the program
lets people copy bootlegged Hollywood movies and listen to songs on
one another's computers, all without paying a dime to the studios,
artists or songwriters.
Grouper Network Inc.'s founders, Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, say the
built-in limits of their peer-to-peer software make it a poor
substitute for more controversial file-sharing programs such as Kazaa
and Grokster, which are hotbeds for piracy. In addition to limiting
the size and accessibility of groups, they say, their program requires
songs to be streamed — that is, played through the Internet — not
downloaded.
Link to story (
via Declan McCullagh's politech)
Privacy fears over NHS database
Privacy fears over NHS database
03/30/2005 02:01 AMA new NHS computer database may threaten the privacy of patients'
medical records, the BBC has learnt.
Data Mining Goes 3D
Data Mining Goes 3D
07/11/2004 12:59 PMEPIC on data mining
EPIC on data mining
05/27/2004 07:38 PMp2pnet.net May 27 2004 11:07PM GMT
GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive
GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive
05/28/2004 04:51 AMIn a new report, the investigative arm of the government finds that
data mining by federal agencies is ubiquitous. A watchdog group offers
a second report suggesting ways to protect privacy. By Kim Zetter.
Data Mining Resources
Data Mining Resources
05/28/2004 05:09 AM
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EU data mining hacks available for U.S.
EU data mining hacks available for U.S.
09/04/2004 06:57 AMData Mining For the Masses
Data Mining For the Masses
07/29/2004 08:17 PMA proposed data mining spec gets the green light for J2EE-compliant
application servers.
Tantek goes a data mining
Tantek goes a data mining
06/25/2004 04:01 AM"There's GOLD in them thar blogs!" Tantek Celik was overheard
yelling at the dinner party two night ago. "I'm a going a data
mining..."
As Scoble tells it.....
It's public now, so wanted to let everyone know that Tantek Çelik
is leaving Microsoft and going to work for Technorati. This is a loss
for Microsoft and a major win for Technorati. Tantek did the rendering
engine for IE on the Mac, represented Microsoft on the W3C, among
other things, during his tenure at Microsoft (some of his more recent
work won't be seen until Longhorn ships).
I learned it earlier this week (Tantek IM'd me). Tantek is one of
those developers that you just wish you could bottle up and duplicate.
I'm happy for him and Technorati, though.
Is the weblogging and RSS world picking up steam? Can you feel it
yet?
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Camera phones raise privacy fears
Camera phones raise privacy fears
11/18/2003 07:47 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Nov 18 2003 6:58PM ET
Google email criticised over privacy
fears
Google email criticised over privacy
fears
04/13/2004 06:24 PMElectronic Telegraph Apr 13 2004 11:15PM GMT
Crime Database Changing on Privacy Fears
Crime Database Changing on Privacy Fears
07/17/2004 11:06 PMAP via Daily Press Jul 18 2004 3:33AM GMT
Government data-mining lives on
Government data-mining lives on
06/01/2004 08:55 AMU.S. data mining remains unchecked
U.S. data mining remains unchecked
05/31/2004 11:15 AMSQL Server Data Mining Programmability
SQL Server Data Mining Programmability
04/14/2005 01:40 AMWith Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the collection of statistics
techniques and machine learning algorithms generically known as data
mining is brought up to a new level. The most important change is
that, in SQL Server 2005, data mining changes its target audience.
Besides being a scientific lab instrument, addressing a limited number
of highly skilled individuals, SQL Server Data Mining now gains
ubiquity as a handy tool for developers, ready to be used in a wide
range of applications. Most applications, from spreadsheets to
Internet games, from peer-to-peer communication systems to application
servers, share one common characteristic: they have to process data.
In doing this, they use certain standard APIs for accessing data. With
SQL Server 2005 Data Mining, the same kind of APIs can be used to
embed machine intelligence in the data processing systems.
Data Mining by Government Rampant
Data Mining by Government Rampant
05/28/2004 12:46 PMThe General Accounting Office,
Congress' investigative arm, has issued a new report showing that
government agencies are using data-mining in all kinds of ways and
without any serious scrutiny for abuse. It's all in the name of
protecting against terrorism, but the wider use of these techniques is
blatantly obvious, and dangerous.
And this report doesn't have anything about what the CIA and NSA are
doing, because they didn't bother to respond to Congress on this
question. Secrecy rules if you're the government. Privacy is dying if
you're not the government. This is a dangerous imbalance.
GAO Studies U.S. Government Data Mining
GAO Studies U.S. Government Data Mining
05/28/2004 10:50 AMSQL, Data Mining, & Genetic Programming
SQL, Data Mining, & Genetic Programming
04/23/2004 11:06 PMDDJ Apr 24 2004 2:20AM GMT
DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool
DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool
06/22/2005 02:48 AM
DataFerrett - Data Mining Toolhttp://dataferrett.census.gov/
DataFerrett is a data mining tool that accesses data
stored in TheDataWeb through the internet. DataFerrett can be
installed as an application on your desktop or use a java applet with
an internet browser. DataFerrett is compatible with Windows operating
systems: 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME and XP. DataFerrett is a unique data
mining and extraction tool. DataFerrett allows you to select a
databasket full of variables and then recode those variables as you
need. You can then develop and customize tables. Selecting your
results in your table you can create a chart or graph for a visual
presentation into an html page. Save your data in the databasket and
save your table for continued reuse. DataFerrett helps you locate and
retrieve the data you need across the Internet to your desktop or
system, regardless of where the data resides. This has been added to
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George Bush fears email privacy breach
George Bush fears email privacy breach
04/15/2005 07:47 AM'I don't want you reading my personal stuff', prez tells press
Free Google email raises privacy fears
Free Google email raises privacy fears
04/14/2004 11:44 PMElectronic Telegraph Apr 15 2004 3:36AM GMT
Free Google e-mail raises privacy fears
Free Google e-mail raises privacy fears
04/13/2004 09:02 PMElectronic Telegraph Apr 14 2004 1:51AM GMT
ArcSight injects data mining into
security
ArcSight injects data mining into
security
05/25/2004 06:01 PMArcSight this week detailed a new software product, TruThreat
Discovery, that combines data mining technology with security to more
effectively evaluate security threats.
Database developer/Data mining
programmer
Database developer/Data mining
programmer
08/09/2004 12:53 PM - United States, DC, Washington DC (2004-08-09)
Panel Seeks Protections From Data Mining
Panel Seeks Protections From Data Mining
06/27/2004 07:25 PMAP via Los Angeles Times Jun 27 2004 11:09PM GMT
Old School Data Mining, Maritime Style?
Old School Data Mining, Maritime Style?
12/29/2003 02:58 PMSurvey finds U.S. agencies engaged in
data mining
Survey finds U.S. agencies engaged in
data mining
05/27/2004 10:45 AMCNET May 27 2004 1:28PM GMT
GAO Report Reveals Rampant Federal Data
Mining
GAO Report Reveals Rampant Federal Data
Mining
05/27/2004 09:11 PMAlthough Congress put an end to the Pentagon's Terrorism Information
Awareness project, a GAO report shows that nearly 200 data mining
initiatives are under way or in the works.
Data Mining Algorithms: Microsoft SQL
Server 2000
Data Mining Algorithms: Microsoft SQL
Server 2000
09/13/2004 08:34 PMText Mining Begins Digging Through
Unstructured Data
Text Mining Begins Digging Through
Unstructured Data
07/03/2004 05:34 AMText Mining Begins Digging Through Unstructured
Datahttp://snipurl.com/7gppA good
85% of an organization's knowledge is in the form of unstructured
data. Easy to quantify, hard to find. "We are drowning in information
but are starving for knowledge," says an R&D technical leader at Dow
Chemical. But a new generation of text mining tools is allowing
companies to extract key elements from large unstructured data sets,
discover relationships and summarize the information. Dow, for
example, uses ClearResearch to extract data from chemical patent
abstracts, published research papers and the company's own files. And
the University of Louisville uses SAS's Text Miner on text files, such
as patient charts, and analyzes flat-file snapshots of billing and
pharmaceutical databases as text, rather than as database entries.
Researchers there have pinpointed certain medications that can prolong
hospital stays for patients. Because of some limitations in the new
software (such as understanding linguistics), text miners are still
niche products, generally restricted to specific parts of an
organization and requiring specialized analytical skills to implement
and deliver truly useful information. It'll be awhile before they're
commonly available. But some vendors are already incorporating text
mining tools as a background function to improve the effectiveness of
more familiar search or document management applications.
NSF, Intelligence Community Work on
Data-Mining Research
NSF, Intelligence Community Work on
Data-Mining Research
03/20/2003 01:05 PMPrompted by homeland security issues, the U.S. intelligence community
and the National
Science Foundation are researching innovative data-mining techniques
designed primarily
to aid law enforcement agencies at various levels.
Using Data Mining to Discover Web-Based
Scholarly Research Works
Using Data Mining to Discover Web-Based
Scholarly Research Works
12/22/2004 01:18 AMBibliomining for Automated Collection Development in a Digital
Library Setting: Using Data Mining to Discover Web-Based Scholarly
Research Works by Dr. Scott Nicholson
http://dlist.sir
.arizona.edu/archive/00000625/
http://www.BiblioMining.com/
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Abstract:
This research creates an
intelligent agent for automated collection development in a digital
library setting. It uses a predictive model based on facets of each
Web page to select scholarly works. The criteria came from the
academic library selection literature, and a Delphi study was used to
refine the list to 41 criteria. A Perl program was designed to analyze
a Web page for each criterion and applied to a large collection of
scholarly and non-scholarly Web pages. Bibliomining, or data mining
for libraries, was then used to create different classification
models. Four techniques were used: logistic regression, non-parametric
discriminant analysis, classification trees, and neural networks.
Accuracy and return were used to judge the effectiveness of each model
on test datasets. In addition, a set of problematic pages that were
difficult to classify because of their similarity to scholarly
research was gathered and classified using the models. The resulting
models could be used in the selection process to automatically create
a digital library of Web-based scholarly research works. In addition,
the technique can be extended to create a digital library of any type
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