According to news from Minority Report:
A US company which deals with security issues faced by the country has developed a product that digs into social networks and gathers data about different peoples and predict their movements.
The firm behind the Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), Raytheon uses information from Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter.
The company’s principal investigator Brain Urch has shown in a video demonstration that how easily the software product can dig into social networks to collect your past data and use it to predict the future activity.
When Brain Urch tapped the name of a staff member into the Riot browser, which looks pretty similar to Evil Google, returns the host of social networking based results.
The software then pulls out the staffer’s check-ins which were instantly plotted on a map. Brain also demonstrates that the software is pretty much able to plot locations pulled from uploaded EXIF images.
According to the results provided by RIOT browser, Urch tells that the expected place to find this particular staff member is at GYM on a Monday morning at 6am.
Also the RIOT analyzer can analyze your connections across the social networks and display them in handy graphical format.
Raytheon says that it hasn’t told anyone about this RIOT program but it did concede that the government and industry have seen this program.
Jared Adams, a spokesperson of the firm has told the Guardian that:
"Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into useable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs," He further said, "Its innovative privacy features are the most robust that we're aware of, enabling the sharing and analysis of data without personally identifiable information [such as social security numbers, bank or other financial account information] being disclosed."
Although this product can seriously help the country through a brilliant private monitoring system but it can still leave many people feeling exposed, and many people after reading this news can close their social accounts from small social networks.
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