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CIA's Gus Hunt On Big Data: We 'Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever'

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Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira "Gus" Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos -- and that the agency wants all of it.
"The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever."
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Dont think Big Brother is watching you, well you heard it directly from CIA's chief technology officer; The CIA wants everything and holds onto it forever.
 
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If they're watching me, they're very bored. My concern is the money/resources required to keep track of essentially nobodies or huge files of no spy interest.
 
Re: CIA's Gus Hunt On Big Data: We 'Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Foreve

Gotta fill that new massive data center with something.

Here is my byte
 
Re: CIA's Gus Hunt On Big Data: We 'Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Foreve

Byte this, federales!
 
Re: CIA's Gus Hunt On Big Data: We 'Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Foreve

Remember those dudes who were caught after training in the woods to assault a military base and slaughter as many people as they could, a'la Maj Hassan? How about the guys who had bought the fake bombs and were going to hit a bridge during rush hour?



CIA is legally restricted from collecting on US persons without getting a ruling from the Judiciary. Domestic is FBI.
 
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