Having spent $42 million on it, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has scrapped an anti-terrorism data-mining tool after it was revealed that up to two years of testing had been done with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards, according to an Associated Press story in The Washington Post.
ADVISE, which stands for the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program, was designed to crunch massive amounts of data from immigration, customs, border protection, biological defense and its intelligence office. It was one of 12 data-mining projects under way in Homeland Security.
SiliconValley.com quotes DHS spokesman Russ Knocke as saying the department’s Science and Technology directorate has “determined that new commercial products now offer similar functionality while costing significantly less to maintain than ADVISE.” 数据挖掘研究院
