Rapid Information Overlay Technology

IdrisIdris Posts: 2,317
edited February 2013 in A Moving Train
Enhanced Security Software Uses Social Media, GPS To Monitor People
"Raytheon has developed An 'extreme-scale analytics' system created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defense contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.

Besides monitoring mobile phone calls, the software can track posts on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), the Foursquare mobile app and Twitter and then link to CCTV systems to track individuals to places they frequent.
The Rapid Information Overly Technology reportedly can track check-in posts and geotagged photos in social media. Further, it can chart social connections and highlight those an individual communicates with most often.


When Raytheon isn't busy building a railgun or tinkering with exoskeletons, it apparently spends some time coding software to help keep tabs on what folks are doing online.

The Guardian got ahold of a video from 2010 that reveals a Raytheon employee demoing such software with the moniker Rapid Information Overlay Technology, or Riot for short. Instead of sifting through streams of tweets and Foursquare checkins to figure out a person's haunts and schedule, Riot collates data for users and displays it in everything from maps (saved in .kml files) and charts. Riot is even savvy enough to pull out location information saved in the exif data of photos posted online. One visualization feature in the program arranges a target's info in a spider web-like view and highlights connections between them and people they've communicated with online.


Jared Adams, a spokesman for Raytheon’s intelligence and information systems department, said in an email the The Guardian: “Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation’s rapidly changing security needs.

http://www.ibtimes.com/enhanced-security-software-uses-social-media-gps-monitor-people-1075932

Raytheon's Riot could make online stalking more efficient for governments (video)

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/11/raytheon-riot-software-online-spying/

http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/77286.html

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2242848/defence-contractor-devises-facebook-data-mining-and-analysis-tool?WT.rss_f=&WT.rss_a=Defence+contractor+devises+Facebook+data+mining+and+analysis+tool
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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    This is Great News!!! Now our Government can route out the trouble makers! :clap:
  • IdrisIdris Posts: 2,317
    Now our Government can route out the trouble makers! :clap:

    :thumbup:

    I can't wait! But it may be a bit longer till it's on the market for them to use.
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Idris wrote:
    Now our Government can route out the trouble makers! :clap:

    :thumbup:

    I can't wait! But it may be a bit longer till it's on the market for them to use.


    God Bless America!!!
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,084
    :thumbup: Woot!
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.
    Democracy Dies in Darkness- Washington Post













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