GAO Report Reveals Rampant Federal Data Mining

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Data Mining by Government Rampant

Data Mining by Government Rampant 05/28/2004 12:46 PM

The 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.

Federal Judge Rejects Process for
Approval of Mining

Federal Judge Rejects Process for
Approval of Mining 07/10/2004 02:37 AM
A judge in West Virginia struck down a procedure that gives a blanket pre-clearance to Appalachian mining operations that dynamite away mountaintops and dump some of the refuse into streams.

Workplace data theft runs rampant

Workplace data theft runs rampant 02/15/2004 03:33 AM
Many staff are happy to steal key information from the firms they work for, a study has found.

Data Mining Goes 3D

Data Mining Goes 3D 07/11/2004 12:59 PM

GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive

GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive 05/28/2004 04:51 AM
In 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.

EPIC on data mining

EPIC on data mining 05/27/2004 07:38 PM
p2pnet.net May 27 2004 11:07PM GMT

Data Mining Resources

Data Mining Resources 05/28/2004 05:09 AM


Data Mining Resources
http://www.DataMiningResou rces.info/

Data Mining Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for data mining information. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and is maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here.

Data Mining For the Masses

Data Mining For the Masses 07/29/2004 08:17 PM
A 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?

[Scobeliz er]

EU data mining hacks available for U.S.

EU data mining hacks available for U.S. 09/04/2004 06:57 AM

SQL, Data Mining, & Genetic Programming

SQL, Data Mining, & Genetic Programming 04/23/2004 11:06 PM
DDJ Apr 24 2004 2:20AM GMT

Government data-mining lives on

Government data-mining lives on 06/01/2004 08:55 AM

U.S. data mining remains unchecked

U.S. data mining remains unchecked 05/31/2004 11:15 AM

SQL Server Data Mining Programmability

SQL Server Data Mining Programmability 04/14/2005 01:40 AM
With 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.

GAO Studies U.S. Government Data Mining

GAO Studies U.S. Government Data Mining 05/28/2004 10:50 AM

DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool

DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool 06/22/2005 02:48 AM


DataFerrett - Data Mining Tool
http://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 Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

ArcSight injects data mining into
security

ArcSight injects data mining into
security 05/25/2004 06:01 PM
ArcSight this week detailed a new software product, TruThreat Discovery, that combines data mining technology with security to more effectively evaluate security threats.

Old School Data Mining, Maritime Style?

Old School Data Mining, Maritime Style? 12/29/2003 02:58 PM

Panel Seeks Protections From Data Mining

Panel Seeks Protections From Data Mining 06/27/2004 07:25 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 27 2004 11:09PM GMT

Database developer/Data mining
programmer

Database developer/Data mining
programmer 08/09/2004 12:53 PM
- United States, DC, Washington DC (2004-08-09)

Data Mining Algorithms: Microsoft SQL
Server 2000

Data Mining Algorithms: Microsoft SQL
Server 2000 09/13/2004 08:34 PM

NSF, Intelligence Community Work on
Data-Mining Research

NSF, Intelligence Community Work on
Data-Mining Research 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Prompted 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.

Data-mining for terrorists sparks U.S.
privacy fears

Data-mining for terrorists sparks U.S.
privacy fears 05/20/2004 09:51 PM
CNET May 21 2004 1:36AM GMT

Survey finds U.S. agencies engaged in
data mining

Survey finds U.S. agencies engaged in
data mining 05/27/2004 10:45 AM
CNET May 27 2004 1:28PM GMT

Text Mining Begins Digging Through
Unstructured Data

Text Mining Begins Digging Through
Unstructured Data 07/03/2004 05:34 AM
Text Mining Begins Digging Through Unstructured Data
http://snipurl.com/7gpp
A 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.

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 AM
Bibliomining 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/ < br />
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 of structured electronic information. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Data mining firm names 'statistically
likely' terrorists

Data mining firm names 'statistically
likely' terrorists 05/21/2004 08:18 AM

July 2004 Zillman Column - Data Mining
Resources on the Internet

July 2004 Zillman Column - Data Mining
Resources on the Internet 06/23/2004 12:19 PM
July 2004 Zillman Column - Data Mining Resources on the Internet
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Data Mining Resources.pdf
http://www.zillmancolumns.com/

The July 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Data Mining Resources on the Internet. This July 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive listing of online data mining sites and subject guides currently available on the Internet. Download this excellent 12 page free .pdf document today and stay current in the ever changing exciting data mining field!

Northwest Denies Knowledge of Secret
Gov't Data-Mining Study

Northwest Denies Knowledge of Secret
Gov't Data-Mining Study 01/19/2004 03:58 AM
Northwest Airlines said Sunday that an executive and a company spokesman were not aware of the company's role in a secret government study when they denied that the airline gave away passenger information.

V2N22 May 31, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Data Mining
Resources

V2N22 May 31, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Data Mining
Resources 05/31/2004 05:37 AM
This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. May 31, 2004 V2N22 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Data Mining Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at:

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CFP 2004: Data mining allowing insurance
companies to do high-tech redlining

CFP 2004: Data mining allowing insurance
companies to do high-tech redlining 04/21/2004 02:20 PM
Birny Birnbaum, Executive Directorfor the Center for Economic Justice in Texas, just gave an astounding presentation at CFP 2004 about how insurance companies are using data mining to do "high-tech redlining," denying coverage or charging excess rates for insurance when...

Northwest Gave Passenger Info to Secret
NASA Data-Mining Study

Northwest Gave Passenger Info to Secret
NASA Data-Mining Study 01/19/2004 03:58 AM
Northwest Airlines gave information on passengers to the federal government for a secret air-security project after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the airline said Saturday.

Leak row as Hutton reveals report

Leak row as Hutton reveals report 01/27/2004 08:38 PM
Lord Hutton is about to deliver his verdict on Dr David Kelly's death as the Sun publishes leaked details of the report

EU report reveals inside Microsoft

EU report reveals inside Microsoft 04/22/2004 04:18 PM
ZDNet Apr 22 2004 7:40PM GMT

New York Data Reveals Worrying HIV Trend
in Women

New York Data Reveals Worrying HIV Trend
in Women 12/31/2003 08:30 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 31 2003 6:34PM ET

Boston College reveals alumni data
breach

Boston College reveals alumni data
breach 03/19/2005 03:23 AM

Report: Federal cybersecurity effort
needs improvement

Report: Federal cybersecurity effort
needs improvement 07/23/2004 06:02 PM
An internal Department of Homeland Security report cites progress, before digging into the many problems still present.

Child porn reports double, internet
report reveals

Child porn reports double, internet
report reveals 05/04/2004 07:58 AM
Online.ie News May 4 2004 12:34PM GMT

After "Dating Mining", Try a Little
"Reality Mining"

After "Dating Mining", Try a Little
"Reality Mining" 04/13/2004 06:11 AM
After "Dating Mining", Try a Little "Reality Mining"
http://www.techreview.com/articles/wo_pentland033104.asp

At the MIT Media Labs, the Human Design research group is working on "reality mining" projects that use commonplace wearable technology to identify a company's de facto organization chart (as opposed to the theoretical and often-ignored one on the wall). The group is using two approaches: The first provides an Expert and Collaborator Locator, which uses speech recognition technology to generate profiles of individuals based on the words they use in conversations; the second offers Collaboration Tools, which makes it possible to query a database of employee profiles of interests, skills, or even recently used vocabulary, in order to find people who might work well together. The researchers say: "We expect that by aggregating this information, interpreting it in terms of work tasks, and modeling the dynamics of the interactions, we will be better able to understand and manage complex organizations." There are privacy issues, of course, and here the key is to make the system transparent and to allow employees to scrutinize their bosses' behavior. This could be interesting.
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