Assalamoalaikum. Dan Brown's novel "Digital Fortress" gives a very good idea of the power of NSA. As prologued in this book, Brown wrote this novel after consultation with an anonymous NSA official. In other words, although the story doesn't depict exactly what NSA is doing, it does indicate that the NSA has Big Data from almost every possible source (and technologies such as Cloud computing for storing it - which has been corroborated in the media).
From the point of Big Data analysis, the more the data the more difficult it becomes to have an accurate model of prediction for anything you want to do. A study revealed that the probability for NSA to catch someone suspicious (who really is suspicious) is 1 in 10000 - and that with a predictive model which is 99% accurate. If the accuracy goes down by even 0.5%, the probability decreases with a faster rate. So, even if collecting Big Data is raising privacy concerns, a bigger problem is to use Big Data Analysis effectively to have extremely reliable predictive models - and the problem: the more diverse the data sources are, the more velocity and volume the data has, the more difficult Predictive Analytics (PA) becomes.
On a side note, a study revealed that around 50-60% companies in USA have problems configuring Hadoop to derive value from their Big Data. There have been quite a few failures within organizations as well regarding Big Data Analysis.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Ashiq Anjum <ashiq.anjum@cern.ch> wrote:
The Washington Post recently reported on a secret government program to snoop Internet data, named PRISM. How will this revelation impact the cloud computing world and could it put a damper on cloud adoption?
Last week, the Obama administration found itself embroiled in another pair of scandals. First, on Wednesday, The Guardian reported that the NSA has been collecting the call records of millions of Verizon customers (later reports say that AT&T and Sprint Nextel are also involved). On Friday, The Washington Post upped the ante and reported that "the National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets." The result of these revelations has been a deep discussion throughout the traditional media, blogosphere, and other social media about the desired limits of government power to intercept and analyze private communications. Whatever your opinion on the politics and civil liberties issues, one thing is for sure — the revelations about the PRISM program are going to change the way people look at public clouds.
For further details, please read the article:
Best regardsAshiq Anjum
Dr. Tariq Mahmood
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