Reading machine to snoop on Web

[anon]

What if the wisdom of Web could be yours, without having to read through it one page at a time? That's what the military wants.

DARPA has hired a company to develop a reading machine to reduce the gap between the ever increasing mountain of digitized text and the intelligence community's insatiable appetite for data input.

BBN Technologies was awarded the $29.7 million contract to develop a universal text engine capable of capturing knowledge from written matter and rendering it into a format that artificial intelligence systems (AI) and human analysts can work with.

The military will use the Machine Reading Program, as it's officially called, to automatically monitor the technological and political activities of nation states and transnational organizations-which could mean everything from al-Qaeda to the U.N.

Reading machine to snoop on Web | Military Tech - CNET News (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10274435-42.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20)

[slikrapid]

imo they already have such systems in place, monitoring all kinds of human activities - from phones, mobile phones, mail, e-mail, internet to satellite monitoring,... and new ones are coming in place all the time (GPS, identity cards/numbers, dna/print id banks, audio/video surveillance, RFID chips,...)

naturally most of these activities are covert and publicly denied as they are essentially in violation of human rights

also, they are not used just for 'security' reasons, but ultimately for control and manipulation as the need arises