DNI Report Details Data Mining Programs - http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008...ta_mining.html [http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/02/dni_report_details_data_mining.html] The Office of the Director of National Intelligence provided an overview of U.S. intelligence data mining development programs in a new report to Congress [http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/datamining.pdf] (pdf). Data mining is used by intelligence agencies to search through databases in order to discern patterns of activity that could indicate a threat to national security. The new report presents brief descriptions of several data mining-related intelligence projects some of which have previously been publicly identified and others that appear to be newly disclosed. “The Video Analysis and Content Extraction (VACE) project seeks to automate what is now a very tedious generally human-p...(more)