Privacy vs Security: Examining the Debate on TIA Systems

[schwarzchildradius]

But why would you expect it to have stopped terrorism? The INS issued student visas to what was it 6 or so of the 9-11 hijackers, after the fact. If you're making the argument that better software in general will help, that's certain, but computer networks tend to be leaky somewhere, and you're talking about a lot of people who have to have data access at some point. I see 2 big disadvantages.

 

[Dissident Dan]

Originally posted by Hurkyl
Because good data mining algorithms can function as a strong work multiplier. It is not unreasonable to expect that a classification algorithm could place 75% of the worthwhile data into the 25% highest rated records, thus tripling the effectiveness of the agents that work with that type of data.

Ah, I suppose that that could reduce the amount of employees, if we could trust the government's intentions. However, I was thinking of bigger government as being more intrusive, more omnipresent.