C5IS explores the role of Intrado, OSINT and Big Data analytics in protecting public safety -- and the lives of law enforcement officers. Any way you slice it, 2015 was a hard year, at least on the surface, for the U.S. surveillance sector: Congress passed the USA Freedom Act, doing away with bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The U.S. … [Read more...]
Don’t Confuse Pre-Crime with Predictive Analytics
C5IS examines how rampant media hype leverages Hollywood’s “Minority Report”? to distort the capabilities of pre-crime tools The current issue of TIME magazine carries a remarkable and contrarian cover story on a day-in-the-life of Philadelphia policemen. Remarkable because the article provides an unprecedented look by national media at the dangers police officers face with … [Read more...]