Data Mining for Terrorists and Innocents

As we all know the internet is a world of its own, you can be anyone at anytime. The Tuscon data mining project has a lot of positives and negatives. By combing the internet in search of militant leaders and their follows means combing through anything that may even seem a bit suspicious. In doing this they might come across a piece of private information belonging to someone who may be completely innocent, but it then again they might not be. The process of the data mining project is very intricate to comb through the entire internet seeing how vast and wide it has been spreading. Right now they are unclear if the project compromises anyone first amendment rights but on the other hand it is improving detection of terroristic activities being done on the web. Hopefully with surveillance techniques will improve with time, trial and error.