{"id":1620,"date":"2016-01-20T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2016-01-20T15:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:54:48","slug":"the-white-house-asked-social-media-companies-to-look-for-terrorists-heres-why-theyd-fail-16-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2016\/01\/20\/the-white-house-asked-social-media-companies-to-look-for-terrorists-heres-why-theyd-fail-16-january-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists. Here\u2019s Why They\u2019d #Fail. 16 January, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMany believe that data mining is the crystal ball that will enable us to uncover future terrorist plots. But even in the most wildly optimistic projections, data mining isn\u2019t tenable for that purpose,\u201d wrote Bruce Schneier, prominent cryptologist and fellow at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/01\/20\/the-white-house-asked-social-media-companies-to-look-for-terrorists-heres-why-theyd-fail\/\">The White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists. Here\u2019s Why They\u2019d #Fail.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMany believe that data mining is the crystal ball that will enable us to uncover future terrorist plots. But even in the most wildly optimistic projections, data mining isn\u2019t tenable for that purpose,\u201d wrote Bruce Schneier, prominent cryptologist and fellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2016\/01\/20\/the-white-house-asked-social-media-companies-to-look-for-terrorists-heres-why-theyd-fail-16-january-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}