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CIA Invests in Social-Network Datamining (Schneier)

Submitted by MacRonin on October 26, 2009 - 9:26am
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CIA Invests in Social-Network Datamining: Via Schneier on Security.

From Wired:

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It's part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using "open source intelligence" -- information that's publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

Here's the Visible Technologies press release on the funding.

Read Original Article:(Via Schneier on Security.)

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