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[Daily Post from Infoglide Software] How to stop retail theft and fraud

“…those who belong to organized retail crime (ORC) rings—can’t be easily ID’d by their NASCAR t-shirts. The ORCs move from city to city, changing their identities as they go, and to catch these criminals loss prevention professionals must have the ability to resolve multiple identities and utilize all their data…”

Yahoo! Finance/AP: Data on Americans Mined for Terror Risk

“The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday. Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement officials, the Justice Department said in a report to Congress on the agency’s data-mining practices.”

O’Reilly Radar: Non Obvious Relationship Awareness

Jeff Jonas’ “current focus is ‘anonymous entity resolution’ — the ability to share sensitive data without actually revealing it. That is, by using one-way hashes, you can look across various databases for a match without actually pooling all the data and making it available to all. As you can imagine, solving this problem is fairly critical to the government if they want ‘total information awareness’ while maintaining citizen privacy and some semblance of civil liberties.”

Jeff Jonas: How to Use a “Glue Gun” to Catch a Liar

“When two identities collapse into one identity – this new conjoined identity now has more context. As something new had just been learned, sequence neutral processing immediately determines if there are any further assertions of the past to fix (e.g., more identities that can be conjoined, or in some cases, disjoined).”

Google Public Policy Blog: Data retention: the right balance between privacy and security

“Citizens should have a right to privacy online. And governments have an obligation to keep their citizens safe. Finding the right balance between privacy and security is a delicate balancing act. Europe’s recent experience with data retention holds interesting lessons for everyone concerned with this balance. In the aftermath of the Madrid bombings in 2004, the European Council adopted a Declaration on Combating Terrorism…”

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