Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm

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Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm

Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network
data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil
rights groups

Ryan Gallagher
The Guardian
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Link to video: How Raytheon software tracks you online

A multinational security firm has secretly developed
software capable of tracking people's movements and
predicting future behaviour by mining data from social
networking websites.

A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an "extreme-
scale analytics" system created by Raytheon, the world's
fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts
of information about people from websites including
Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Raytheon says it has not sold the software � named Riot,
or Rapid Information Overlay Technology � to any clients.

But the Massachusetts-based company has acknowledged the
technology was shared with US government and industry as
part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010,
to help build a national security system capable of
analysing "trillions of entities" from cyberspace.

The power of Riot to harness popular websites for
surveillance offers a rare insight into controversial
techniques that have attracted interest from intelligence
and national security agencies, at the same time
prompting civil liberties and online privacy concerns.

Continues at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence

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