According to The Inquirer:
A vast US government Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data mining program has been suspended, it has been reported.
In operation from late 2004 until mid-2006, the $42 million data collection and correlation system was called ADVISE (for Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement).
ADVISE was intended to hunt for terrorists and weapons of mass destruction by hoovering up and sifting through trillions of pieces of information, including US citizens’ personal data. It reportedly collected information widely from thousands of sources, including government and commercial databases, blogs, emails, intelligence reports and other sources.
But ADVISE apparently wasn’t built to conform to US privacy laws. From its start, it was tested with live data that included personally identifiable information, and its processes failed to follow relevant federal laws or even DHS internal guidelines designed to prevent the misuse of Americans’ private data.
Perhaps DHS should have simply made a phone call to Google.
Link: Christian Science Monitor (via The Inquirer)
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