Prescription drug fight goes before appeals court

So-called data-mining companies that collect information about the drugs doctors prescribe asked an appeals court Tuesday to stop Vermont from enacting a law next week restricting their work.

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Data on Americans Mined for Terror Risk

The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday.

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Research Explores Data Mining, Privacy

As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs, computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data mining that also protects individual privacy.

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Skepticism Surrounds NSA Mining Records

There's a lot we still don't know — and may never know — about the National Security Agency's surveillance of Americans' phone calls. But one striking tidbit has emerged: that the agency is mining phone records for patterns of terrorist activity.

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Cos., Gov't Seek to Keep Lid on Metadata

When the New England Journal of Medicine used a word-processing function to reveal that Merck & Co. had deleted study data about Vioxx and heart attacks, the pharmaceutical giant joined a long line of organizations bitten by information lurking in electronic files.

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Even during the height of public fears in the wake of 9/11, a line was drawn at domestic surveillance that uses data-mining.

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A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at le …

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John Travers was striding purposefully into the Westfield mall in Wheaton, Maryland, for some back-to-school shopping before starting his junior year at Bowling Green State University.

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Elance Security Failure -- since July, Elance has had two massive flaws in their site that has resulted in user compromised user info...

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Many people have a lot of information just sitting there on Google's servers including personal appointments (Calendar), correspondence (Gmail), work and personal documents (Google Docs) and online reading habits (Google Reader).

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IMC USA published my article in its June 2009 monthly newsletter.

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I THOUGHT it was a little strange when I received separate e-mail messages from two people I knew only slightly asking me to click and see their photos on a social networking site called Tagged. I ignored them at first, but then thought maybe I should check it out.

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You may think anonymity abounds on the web, in your surfing, in your email, in telephone conversations and faxes. But the NSA already knows more about you than your boss, your friends, your family and possibly your spouse. This is top ECHELON stuff.

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I'm not on Twitter yet, but this looks like it could be useful to those who are. (via American Libraries Direct)

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In August 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sought government records concerning the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two weeks before the World Health Organization offered its initial alert about a public health emergency of international concern.

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Re: This ploy by the Feds is a complete and total outrage….it's just another gross example of the total manipulation of our markets.

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Stevan Dedijer Documentary

The documentary about Stevan Dedijer has been broadcasted by Croatian television ( HTV ) and made me think, laugh, and sparked few ideas.He's the so called '' father of business intelligence '', and some really nice quote from him ( source: his interview ) :'' Science and technol …

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Using sophisticated mathematics, HR departments are learning new ways to determine the value of each employee

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The most interesting thing about the second annual data mining report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence—an abbreviated public version of which was released last week—may be what isn't in it.

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Suppose that the United States Government, or more likely an unaccountable privatized intelligence colossus empowered by the reaction to the 9/11 attacks and fueled by the rampant cronyism of a system long ago gone rotten had a surveillance tool capable of peering into the most p …

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R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia.

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Now, though, the digital revolution that has been undermining in-depth reportage may be ready to give something back, through a new academic and professional discipline known in some quarters as "computational journalism." James Hamilton is director of the DeWitt Wallace Center f …

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Warrantless wiretapping is back in the news, thanks largely to Michael Isikoff's cover piece in the December 22 issue of Newsweek.

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Newsweek reported over the weekend that "two knowledgeable sources" confirmed that the 2004 clash between the White House and the Justice Department over the NSA's warrantless surveillance program was triggered by the NSA's "vast and indiscriminate collection of communi …

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Much has been written about the Justice Department rebellion, including, most recently, the account in Barton Gellman's groundbreaking book "Angler." But a mystery remains: What did the Justice Department rebels object to, and what concessions did Bush make to appease them? What, …

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America's top spy agency has taken over the former Sony microchip plant and is transforming it into a new data-mining headquarters — oddly positioned directly across the street from a 24-hour Walmart — where billions of electronic communications will be sifted in the agency …

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Between Friday night and Sunday morning, a massive deletion operation took place at the European Internet address register (RIPE) to scrub references to a cover used by Germany's premier spy agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND.

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Guantanamo Bay, military tribunals, renditions, water-boarding, warrantless surveillance - all these have been part of US policy since 9/11.

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