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The CIA, Link Analysis and a Silicon Valley Startup

by Tanveer Ali Posted on November 27, 2011

This site is all about link analysis and how drawing connections between various networks of data is invaluable to intelligence efforts. That idea was perfectly encapsulated in the recent BusinessWeek feature about the Silicon Valley firm Palantir. This paragraph from … Continue reading →

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CIA’s Social Media Monitoring Program May Just Be the Start

by Tanveer Ali Posted on November 7, 2011

The big news this weekend in the world of national security and social media was the unsurprising revelation that the CIA maintains a division solely devoted to tracking social media activity. The Associated Press reported that self-proclaimed “ninja librarians” in … Continue reading →

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