<p>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication<br />| from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.<br />| posted by samzenpus on Monday December 05, @10:57 (Government)<br />| with 150 comments<br />| <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000049/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />An anonymous reader writes "PRODIGAL (Proactive Discovery of Insider<br />Threats Using Graph Analysis and Learning) is a recently uncovered U.S.<br />government program created in partnership with the Georgia Tech School of<br />Computational Science and Engineering, ostensibly to [0]monitor IMs,<br />texts, and emails on government networks, is feared to be turned on the<br />U.S. population at large. From the article: 'Cherie Anderson runs a<br />travel company in southern California, and she's convinced the federal<br />government is reading her emails. But she's all right with that. "I<br />assume it's part of the Patriot Act and I really don't mind," she says.<br />"I figure I'm probably boring them to death."'"<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid://00000049/!x-usc:https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/05/1511239/new-us-government-project-to-monitor-electronic-communication?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href="http://news.discovery.com/tech/government-reading-emails-privacy-111203.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://news.discovery.com/tech/government-reading-emails-privacy-111203.html</span></span></a></p>
<p>UMM....She's from California right?{jcomments on}</p>