CIA's Gus Hunt On Big Data: We 'Try To Collect Everything And Hang On To It Forever' -- Matt Sledge, Huffington Post
NEW YORK -- The CIA's chief technology officer outlined the agency's endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday.
Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira "Gus" Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos -- and that the agency wants all of it.
"The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever."
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Update: Even the CIA is struggling to deal with the volume of real-time social data -- Gigaom
My Comment: So much for our privacy rights.
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