The US government already contracts hundreds of intelligence analysts to sift overseas Twitter and Facebook posts. Their mission. Not to stay hip by learning about the latest #trend, but to sniff out foreign uprisings, possible terrorist attacks and more. Yet, that's clearly not enough manpower, and the government now wants an actual digital toolset that can scan the entire social media universe in one fell swoop, processing more data than humans can even chip at.
2DayBlog.com, US government wants a social media data mining toolset
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