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The Dawn Of Social Intelligence (Socint), Laura K. Donohue
The Dawn Of Social Intelligence (Socint), Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
More information about citizens’ lives is recorded than ever before. Because the data is digitized, it can be accessed, analyzed, shared, and combined with other information to generate new knowledge. In a post-9/11 environment, the legal standards impeding access to such data have fallen. Simultaneously, the advent of global communications and cloud computing, along with network convergence, have expanded the scope of information available. The U.S. government has begun to collect and to analyze the associated data.
The result is the emergence of what can be termed “social intelligence” (SOCINT), which this Article defines as the collection of digital data …