On May 16, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Bob Shell wrote:
On May 16, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Tom C wrote:
I just don't see how collecting data on 'all the phone calls in the
United States' and 'analyzing them for patterns' will help fight
terrorism. That data base would contain a preponderance of useless,
irrelevant data.
It's pretty simple. The computer looks for patterns. Twenty people all
linked to one call source or daisy-chaining. Then it probably looks at
from whom and from where the calls originated. Is it profiling? Yes. Is
there some chance that it might uncover a terrorist plot? Slim, but
within the remember the possible. Remember the hue and cry about
government malfeasance prior to 9/11, and how not enough was being done
to hunt down terrorists? Well, you can't have it both ways.
