Article
IC Data Mining in the Post-Snowden Era
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
(2016)
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.
Keywords
- telecommunications,
- national security,
- pattern recognition,
- data mining,
- eavesdropping,
- intelligence community
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 13, 2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/08550607.2016.1148488
Citation Information
William J. Lahneman. "IC Data Mining in the Post-Snowden Era" International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence Vol. 29 Iss. 4 (2016) p. 700 - 723 ISSN: 1521-0561 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/william_lahneman/22/