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Political Factoid
Motivation for Data Mining*
| U.S. Government |
Crime detection and terrorism prevention |
| Other governments |
Espionage |
| Corporations |
Profit, profit, profit
Industrial espionage, advertising profits, consumer extortion, market control |
| Wikileaks |
Topple authority
government organizations, corporations, anybody |
| Anarchists |
Topple authority |
| Political terrorists |
Topple government |
| General hackers |
The challenge |
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The collecting (by hook or by crook, legal or not) of various pieces of
data that is personal, private, confidential, or otherwise restricted,
in order to create more powerful information from which the miner
can reap benefits.
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