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Fire Walk With Me

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 03:26 AM Feb 2013

New software can track your every move and predict future behavior — RT [View all]

http://rt.com/news/software-tracks-predicts-raytheon-878/

A video obtained exclusively by The Guardian shows how software developed by the US defense contractor Raytheon, can gather vast amounts of personal information from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Raytheon has admitted that the technology was shared with the US government as part of a joint research and development program in 2010, as part of an effort to build a national security system capable of analyzing trillions of entities from cyberspace.

But, the Massachusetts-based company says it has not sold the software, which is called Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology, to any clients.

The controversial software allegedly enables access to entire parts of a person’s life, their friends, any pictures of themselves they have posted online and places they have visited charted on a map.

(More at the link.)
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Raytheon should have just asked MIRT and saved some R&D expenses. edgineered Feb 2013 #1
Just look what a single Facebook App collects: Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 #2
I don't install those apps. Blanks Feb 2013 #6
The bad thing is - edgineered Feb 2013 #8
I have an old high school buddy... Blanks Feb 2013 #10
Yup Blanks, it's a tough pill to swallow. edgineered Feb 2013 #11
A growing demographic... Blanks Feb 2013 #13
Not a surprise but disgusting, nevertheless. Live and Learn Feb 2013 #3
Basic stupidity, I think Demeter Feb 2013 #5
Test it with Dorner. Downwinder Feb 2013 #4
"If they could see warrprayer Feb 2013 #7
Watch again and see how young Jack Nicholson is edgineered Feb 2013 #9
thanks warrprayer Feb 2013 #12
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