{"id":1834,"date":"2007-02-22T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2007-02-22T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T16:31:02","slug":"government-research-to-track-online-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"Government research to track online networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christopher Dela Cruz and Megan Carr, The Daily Targum, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.dailytargum.com\/media\/storage\/paper168\/news\/2007\/02\/21\/PageOne\/Government.Research.To.Track.Online.Networking-2732150.shtml\">21 February 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security is paying Rutgers $3 million to oversee development of computing methods that could monitor suspicious social networks and opinions found in news stories, Web blogs and other Web information to identify indicators of potential terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>The software and algorithms could rapidly detect social networks among groups by identifying who is talking to whom on public blogs and message boards, researchers said. Computers could ideally pick out entities trying to conceal themselves under different aliases.<\/p>\n<p>It would also be able to sift through massive amounts of text and decipher opinions &#8211; such as anti-American sentiment &#8211; that would otherwise be difficult to do manually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.dailytargum.com\/media\/storage\/paper168\/news\/2007\/02\/21\/PageOne\/Government.Research.To.Track.Online.Networking-2732150.shtml\">Read the article<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/arc\/mds-discuss\">hat tip<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Dela Cruz and Megan Carr, The Daily Targum, 21 February 2007 The Department of Homeland Security is paying Rutgers $3 million to oversee development of computing methods that could monitor suspicious social networks and opinions found in news stories, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-tA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}