IC Data Mining in the Post-Snowden Era

William J. Lahneman

doi:10.1080/08550607.2016.1148488

IC Data Mining in the Post-Snowden Era

William J. Lahneman

Physical Sciences

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Abstract

In 2013, Edward Snowden, a contract employee of the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked information to the press about an NSA Project codenamed PRISM, as well as a large number of classified documents

dealing with NSA eavesdropping on foreign government leaders and other matters. Project PRISM paid or otherwise required telecommunications firms to provide the NSA with bulk records of their customers’ telephone and email records. The NSA data mined this information in search of hidden patterns that might indicate that an individual was engaging in terrorism or conspiracy to commit terrorism.

Original language	American English
Journal	International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Volume	29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08550607.2016.1148488
State	Published - Jun 13 2016

Keywords

telecommunications
national security
pattern recognition
data mining
eavesdropping
intelligence community

Disciplines

International Relations
Defense and Security Studies

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