Just a note that the National Academies Press has released its report (well, at 376 pages, it's really a book)
Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Program Assessment, which is free to read online. You may have seen a news article on it somewhere or another. It's theory-relevant since
Cynthia Dwork was on the committee that wrote it -- I'm guessing she played a very significant role in
Appendix H: Data Mining and Information Fusion and/or
Appendix L: The Science and Technology of Privacy Protection in particular. It's now on my to-read stack.
This report came up in the context of an intense discussion about the NRC report on data mining at The Noisy channel.
ReplyDeleteA better solution of fighting terrorists is to avoid creating them in the first place ... prevention is always a better remedy. The science of fighting terrorism is truly simple; it is sad to see this waste of resources on such useless reports.
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