Mafia Wars: How Italy's Military Police Use Metadata To Track Organized Crime

Investigation

2014-04-19 / www.fastcompagny.com

THE CARABINIERI, ITALY'S MILITARY POLICE, USED A NEW SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO ANALYZE THE PHONE RECORDS OF ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED.

There's a reason why the NSA likes metadata so much. Metadata-the auxiliary data generated by every digital move you ...

The Chaos Company

Organization

2014-04-18 / www.vanityfair.com

Wherever governments can’t—or won’t—maintain order, from oil fields in Africa to airports in Britain and nuclear facilities in America, the London-based “global security” behemoth G4S has been filling the void. It is the world’s third-largest private-sector employer and commands a ...

Meet the contractors analyzing your private data

Privatization

2013-06-10 / www.salon.com

Who’s actually doing the work of analyzing all the data, metadata and personal information pouring into the National Security Agency from Verizon and nine key Internet service providers for its ever-expanding surveillance of American citizens?
Edward Snowden, “a 29-year-old former ...