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              US intelligence to spy on virtual worlds
Monday, February 25th, 2008 By Ryan Singel
The Reynard project will begin by profiling online gaming behavior, then potentially move on to its ultimate goal of “automatically detecting suspicious behavior and actions in the virtual world.”
The publicly available report — which was mandated by Congress following earlier concerns over data-mining programs — also mentions several other data-mining initiatives. These include:
The report gives no indication why the find-a-terrorist cell in Sims project is called Reynard, though that is a traditional trickster figure in literature. Have Your Say: US intelligence to spy on virtual worlds Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. One Response to “US intelligence to spy on virtual worlds”
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