On Dec 17, 2012, at 12:02 PM, David Singer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 16, 2012, at 15:14 , JC Cannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm sure the authorities would get that information from the suppliers and 
>> not rely on ad networks for security intelligence.
> 
> I am not so sure.  The ad networks have a much broader view of you than any 
> one supplier (as do search engines).  If you're looking to profile people, 
> you want more information.  Oh, he buys this…and reads that…and visits that 
> site…and goes to these places…guilty!

Total Information Awareness.

From Wikipedia: The TIA program was researching, developing, and integrating 
technologies to virtually aggregate data, to follow subject-oriented link 
analysis, to develop descriptive and predictive models through data mining or 
human hypothesis, and to apply such models to additional datasets to identify 
terrorists and terrorist groups.

The "ad network" is consumer-grade TIA in a box.

--
Dean

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