Decision Making Improving

ibm and cognis: business inteligence and analytics for improved decision makinh business in this video from the national assocuation of broad casfrer and fulwire and steven from ibm discuss how understanding your online data more clearlu aNti terrorism agencies around the world have made effective use of new surveillance technologies that offer unprecedented abilities to indentify and apprehend potential terrorists. today's terrorists are by nature difficult to track as disconnected groups of individuals can use the internet to communicate their plans with lower chance of detection. anti terrorist technology has evolved to better handle this new type of threat.

but there are drawbacks to these new strategies. often innocent people may find their privacy compromised or completely eliminated as a result of inaccurate information. surveillance technologies are constantly improving while this makes it more difficult for terrorists and other criminals to exchange information, it also jeopardizes our privancy, on the internet and elsewhere, going forward. is this reason for worry? are comparisons to orwell's 1984 appropriate, or overblown?

this video displays both the positive and negative results of new advances in technology, the first segment describes a program called the dark web project being developed by a team at the university of tuscon that combs the internet in search of militant leaders and their followers. however the difficulty with this is that most communication is done via pseudonyms or completely anonymously. the program creates author profiles based on word length, punctuation, syntax, and content, and displays information about the personality type of an individual graphically.