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Big brother not only watching: New spy software can 'predict future'

Published on Feb 14, 2013

The US government's stepping-up efforts to spy on its citizens - with a new defense software, able to predict people's future behavior and locations. However, with the program only using data submitted voluntarily via social networks - the authorities emerge unscathed when it comes to claims of privacy violations - RT's Gayane Chichakyan has more.

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A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.

A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an "extreme-scale analytics" system created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Raytheon says it has not sold the software – named Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology – to any clients.

But the Massachusetts-based company has acknowledged the technology was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of analysing "trillions of entities" from cyberspace.

The sophisticated technology demonstrates how the same social networks that helped propel the Arab Spring revolutions can be transformed into a "Google for spies" and tapped as a means of monitoring and control.The power of Riot to harness popular websites for surveillance offers a rare insight into controversial techniques that have attracted interest from intelligence and national security agencies, at the same time prompting civil liberties and online privacy concerns.

Using Riot it is possible to gain an entire snapshot of a person's life – their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a few clicks of a button.

In the video obtained by the Guardian, it is explained by Raytheon's "principal investigator" Brian Urch that photographs users post on social networks sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded by smartphones within "exif header data."

Riot pulls out this information, showing not only the photographs posted onto social networks by individuals, but also the location at which the photographs were taken.

"We're going to track one of our own employees," Urch says in the video, before bringing up pictures of "Nick," a Raytheon staff member used as an example target. With information gathered from social networks, Riot quickly reveals Nick frequently visits Washington Nationals Park, where on one occasion he snapped a photograph of himself posing with a blonde haired woman.

"We know where Nick's going, we know what Nick looks like," Urch explains, "now we want to try to predict where he may be in the future."

Riot can display on a spider diagram the associations and relationships between individuals online by looking at who they have communicated with over Twitter. It can also mine data from Facebook and sift GPS location information from Foursquare, a mobile phone app used by more than 25 million people to alert friends of their whereabouts. The Foursquare data can be used to display, in graph form, the top 10 places visited by tracked individuals and the times at which they visited them.

The video shows that Nick, who posts his location regularly on Foursquare, visits a gym frequently at 6am early each week. Urch quips: "So if you ever did want to try to get hold of Nick, or maybe get hold of his laptop, you might want to visit the gym at 6am on a Monday."

Mining from public websites for law enforcement is considered legal in most countries. In February last year, for instance, the FBI requested help to develop a social-media mining application for monitoring "bad actors or groups".

However, Ginger McCall, an attorney at the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said the Raytheon technology raised concerns about how troves of user data could be covertly collected without oversight or regulation.

"Social networking sites are often not transparent about what information is shared and how it is shared," McCall said. "Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search."

Raytheon, which made sales worth an estimated $25bn (£16bn) in 2012, did not want its Riot demonstration video to be revealed on the grounds that it says it shows a "proof of concept" product that has not been sold to any clients.

Jared Adams, a spokesman for Raytheon's intelligence and information systems department, said in an email: "Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs.

"Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed."

In December, Riot was featured in a newly published patent Raytheon is pursuing for a system designed to gather data on people from social networks, blogs and other sources to identify whether they should be judged a security risk.

In April, Riot was scheduled to be showcased at a US government and industry national security conference for secretive, classified innovations, where it was listed under the category "big data – analytics, algorithms."

According to records published by the US government's trade controls department, the technology has been designated an "EAR99" item under export regulations, which means it "can be shipped without a licence to most destinations under most circumstances".

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The Internet At Google Speed: 1 Gigabit Per Second

Sometimes it's hard to take Google Seriously. It feels 
like they release products and projects daily. How do 
you tell what will rock and what will fizzle?

This week the company revealed Google Buzz — yet another way to connect and share with your friends, relatives, acquaintances and pets. Whoopeee!! Oh, 
wait, I'm not sure I really need that.

Then it announced an ambitious experiment in ultra-broadband Internet access. That's when I stopped thinking and started dreaming.

Google says it will run fiber-to-the-home trials at the astounding data speed of 1 gigabit per second. They'll 
sell this service at "a competitive price" to 50,000 people, possibly rising to 500,000 people.

It's at this point that I'd like to toss around some choice slang that is not acceptable when printed under the NPR banner. But I can't. So I'll just leave it at this: Holy cow!

I can't get past that speed number: One gigabit per second. Google says that's about 100 times faster than most home broadband connections. I'd say it's more
 than 100 times faster. My DSL connection is certainly 
not running at 10 Mbps. This is the kind of number that makes you sit back and wonder, if they can do that, why isn't someone else — a dedicated ISP, for instance — already doing it?

Verizon is the only company in the U.S. to roll out 
fiber-to-the-home connections on a large scale. Looking at their Web page, they are offering a top speed of 50 Mbps. That's 20 timesslower than what Google is proposing.

With Google's speed, you could download high-def Hollywood movies at your convenience. You wouldn't be watching a download-progress bar; you'd be watching Avatar. But what else could you do?

Google says answering that question is one of its three goals for the project. What new apps would blossom if people were given a flood of connectivity at a
 consumer-level price? The other two goals are to experiment with new techniques for laying big fiber networks and to promote openness in the data networks that connect the public to the Internet.

In a Washington Post opinion piece, Google CEO Eric Schmidt argued this week that the U.S. needs to up the broadband ante to be a competitive, growing economy:

High-speed Internet access must be much more widely available. Broadband is a major driver of new jobs and businesses, yet we rank only 15th in the world for access. More government support for broadband remains critical.

So, it doesn't look like this is Google looking to get into the ISP/provider business on a national scale. It looks like the company is using its huge pile of cash and deep pool of engineering talent to push the normally conservative cousins known as the U.S. government and private industry into a race for speed. Google seems to be taking action on the ground as a form of advocacy that can't be ignored in the corridors of power.

Widespread availability of super-speed Internet access is only half the puzzle for Google. The other half is ensuring that the Internet remains an open platform, where you don't have to buy other services from your provider — such as phone or TV service — to get online at hyper-speed.

Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager for alternative access at Google, told GigaOM that "our fiber to the home is strictly an IP data pipe." She went on to say:

Think back to when we all had dial-up and no idea what would be possible once we moved into this broadband world. This is like that, and that's where the open nature of the network is important. We have a lot of Google engineers who are excited and experimenting with apps and services on the network ... to offer products and services on top of the network.

So Google sees the network as a computer platform, just like Windows or Mac OS is a platform. An open network is a technology on which everyone — including Google — can build new tools and services. No one company, however, owns the Internet. So keeping it open at all ends is a tricky business when there are so many competing interests involved.

Deciding where to carry out Google's experiment will be a competition in its own right. The company is looking for communities to work with across the country and is taking online nominationsfrom citizens and government officials until March 26.

The question remains, even if Google follows through and builds out its gigabit-to-the-home network, will it amount to anything? Will it advance the Internet and lead to new technologies being built on top of the network? Will it influence the officials and companies Google wants to put pressure on? Or will it just be another grand gesture that ends up going nowhere but to the scrap heap of Google products that promised much and delivered not-so-much?

As with all things, only time will tell.

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