How Useful Is Data Mining for Preventing Terrorism

by Curt Hall

Two weeks ago I wrote about the US government's plan to develop the "Total Information Awareness" system, a super data warehouse that would integrate large numbers of heterogeneous data sources -- both commercial and governmental -- and apply data mining techniques to search for patterns indicative of possible terrorist-related activity (" The Total Information Awareness System," 26 November 2002).

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How Useful Is Data Mining for Preventing Terrorism 10 December 2002