DataMining

=Politics & Governments: Data Mining= Add your news article that you have researched to this wikipage, provide a brief summary and a link to the actual article. We will then discuss so of the issues surrounding these articles as a group and add the conclusion to this page.

Rickie Tsang [|GameStop wants your trade-ins. Enough to call you and ask for something they've already sold you] By: [|Ben Kuchera] A customer, who barely visits to the game shop, had a lot of calls from the automated calling machine from the store. They call every individual consumers to inflence them to have their game be refund with a lower price. Although not all the customers would want to trade their software back, the store uses the information in the loyalty card to annoy them. 

William Yeh Did credit card companies collaborate with the FBI's grocery data mining program? The Congressional Quarterly's Jeff Stein recently r[|eported that the FBI went trawling through grocery store records] in order to track down Iranian terror cells. The program, however, was short lived and was quickly "torpedoed by the head of the FBI's criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous -- and possibly illegal." Posted by [|Chris Soghoian] 

Moe O //Fight for your right to privacy// "...after a great deal of argument over whether it is reasonable for the law to require net service providers and phone companies to store details of e-mails sent, web pages visited and calls made, it seems as if the Data Retention Directive will make it into law early next year..." //Bill Thompson, BBC news// http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4469886.stm

Stephen Chern //Efforts by the US government to gain access to records from the world's leading search engines highlight the issue of holding onto huge amounts of internet data, argues law professor Michael Geist.// The US Department of Justice has demanded search data from the world’s leading search engines, in other words, it wanted a list chronicling every website in the search engine database along with literally every search request over a two-month period to gauge the amount of appropriate information on the internet, as well as the frequency with which users search for such content.Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have all compiled with the request, yet, Google refused to do this. While much of the focus has been on the privacy implications of the Department of Justice request, there are more significant risks and rewards that arise from retaining enormous amounts of data.
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Jerry Lee F.B.I. Data Mining Reached Beyond Initial Targets By Eric Lichtblau Sept.9.2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/washington/09fbi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The F.B.I is casting a wider range of data mining in terrorism investigation than previously acknowledged. The investigation used secret demands for records to obtain data not only on individuals who were saw as targets but also details on their “community of interest”, who are the network of people that the target was in contact with. Civil rights leaders think that the analysis can be misused to establish tenuous links to people who have no real connection to terrorism but may be drawn into an investigation nonetheless.

Jackie Lu-Shao Data mining: Social sites said not targeted By:Anita Miller November 06, 2007 http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/local_story_310121810.html The article is talking about how students who post personal information on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook can have their data misused due to Data mining. "According to handouts distributed to students, the software is being developed to track the content of political speech in Internet blogs and on social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, with the stated intention of identifying 'anti-American' sentiment and rooting out 'terrorists.'" Personal information may be extracted from these large networks in search for potential terrorists which can in turn invade the privacy and extract data from innocent users. Users need to be aware of what they put on the sites. Because any personal data they might post online could be put to any kind of use

//E. J. Sinrod, (2004) What's up with government data mining?// //USA// //Today**.** Available at:  Accessed on// //November 9th 2007//
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 * //What's up with government data mining?//** The federal government has been using data mining techniques for various purposes, from attempting to improve service to trying to detect terrorist patterns and activities. Significantly, of these 199 current and intended data mining efforts, 122 used personal information. The Department of Defense reported the highest number of efforts to improve service, manage human resources, and to detect terrorist activities, fraud, waste and abuse. Data mining is also used for analyzing scientific research and research information. Despite these advantages data mining brings, one certainly can be left with an uneasy feeling when vast amounts of data, including personal information, can be manipulated so easily in an effort to "uncover hidden patterns" and "predict future results." Incorrect conclusions can be drawn from data, data can be used for other than original purposes, and privacy rights can be violated.

Our society not is depending heavily on technology and when every we access something, even mobile phone, could expose our idendity. Jane Wakefielf, //How to hide in a connected world//, 2 Nov 2006, 9 Nov 2007, 
 * Roman Pan**

__Homeland Security Courts__ __Silicon Valley__ //CNet// (07/31/03); Gilbert, Alorie Silicon Valley technology firms and entrepreneurs caught in a IT spending downturn could have reason to smile with the Department of Homeland Security's announcement of a roughly $1 billion budget for academic and private-sector research and development projects focusing on technology that could fortify the national infrastructure and enhance defensive and responsive measures to terrorist incidents. http://news.com.com/2100-1020_3-5058618.html
 * Rose Liu**

Government Increasingly Turning To Data Mining- Peek into Private Lives May Help in Hunt for Terroists By Arshad mohammed and sara Kehaulani Goo Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 15, 2006 [|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402063.html]The Pentagon pays a private company to compile data on teenagers it can recruit to the military. The Homeland Security Department buys consumer information to help screen people at borders and detect immigration fraud.
 * Amanda Bruce**