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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by cubecul on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:15AM (#9374367)
What do you think Palantir does that would have them scanning FB chat?
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by tolkienfanatic on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:16AM (#9374375)
Palantir does tons of government and military work.
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by cubecul on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:18AM (#9374390)
Doesn't answer my question deeply enough.
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by pjc50 on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:37AM (#9374553)
Military == antiterrorism == SELECT * FROM chat WHERE text CONTAINS "jihad"
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by RodericDay on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:47AM (#9374635)
also "inequality" and "capitalism"
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by ryporter on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @12:35PM (#9375458)
Why was this comment voted down? It challenged an uninformed speculation based on the title of a speculation.
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by rev_bird on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:20AM (#9374410)
Big data analytics is their bread and butter – if they had a way to analyze Facebook messages for patterns and predictively useful metrics, I'm sure they would.
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by cubecul on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:24AM (#9374453)
AFAIK not analytics, but an interface that makes exploring data easier for analysts
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by Bedon292 on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:41AM (#9374598)
They are mostly about exploring the data yes, but they also do some data mining in the content in order to make connections. They attempt to pull out names and link them together and things along those lines. I think they would be far more interested in mining all of the friendships to do the network analysis than the content of the chats.
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Re:Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company? by diminoten on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @10:35AM (#9374537)
They do analytics as well.
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