The Data Minefield project was directed by Paul Rosenzweig and encompasses original research on the U.S. government’s use of data mining tools for national and homeland security, as well as similar uses around the world. It was first published in September 2011.
The project was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Project academic advisers from the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative included co-directors Timothy J. McNulty and Ellen Shearer, and Josh Meyer, director of education and outreach. Research assistance was provided by Andrew Kaspar and Sridhar Natarajan. Web production by Tanveer Ali.
Paul Rosenzweig is a 2011 Carnegie National Security Fellow at the Medill School of Journalism. He formerly served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. He is the coauthor (with James Jay Carafano) of Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom (Heritage Books) and the author of the forthcoming book Cyberwarfare: How Conflicts in Cyberspace are Challenging America and Changing the World (Praeger).
This work is sponsored by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation and the National Security Journalism Initiative, which is supported by The McCormick Foundation.
Andrew Kaspar is a recent graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. As an undergraduate, he spent a quarter in Medill’s Washington, D.C., bureau at the advent of the school’s National Security Initiative. For reasons unbeknownst to him, he aspires to one day cover the dysfunctional and occasionally absurd arena of U.S. politics. Until then, he is currently on a fellowship in Jakarta, Indonesia, working for an English-language newspaper, the Jakarta Globe.