Wednesday, October 04, 2006

AI to Monitor Foreign Press for Threats

From Slashdot:

from the sudden-rise-in-the-number-of-bush-sucks-articles-abroad dept.
jefu writes "According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press in order to detect threats to the United States. While the article says there are restrictions on doing this kind of monitoring within the US, there are no restrictions on media outside the US. (No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles written in the US and published abroad.) This is as yet experimental."




-Corby

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