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Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm: Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups

11 February 2013

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

See: Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm: Exclusive: Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups (Guardian)

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