CIA funds chatroom surveillance

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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39175016,00.htm
Declan McCullagh
CNET News.com
November 25, 2004

The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of
Internet chatrooms as part of an effort to identify possible
terrorists, newly released documents reveal.

In April 2003, the CIA agreed to fund a series of research projects
that the documents indicate were intended to create "new capabilities
to combat terrorism through advanced technology". One of those
projects is research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
N.Y., devoted to automated monitoring and profiling of the behaviour
of chatroom users.

Even though the money ostensibly comes from the National Science
Foundation, CIA officials were involved in selecting recipients for
the research grants, according to a contract between the two agencies
obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and
reviewed by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com.

NSF programme director Leland Jameson said on Wednesday the two-year
agreement probably will not be renewed for the 2005 fiscal year.
"Probably we won't be working with the CIA anymore at all," Jameson
said. "I think that people have moved on to other things."


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