jefu writes "According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press in order to detect threats to the United States. While the article says there are restrictions on doing this kind of monitoring within the US, there are no restrictions on media outside the US. (No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles
Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...5370/article.pl
Full Version: AI to Monitor Foreign Press for Threats (Slashdot)
QUOTE(Yahoo! News @ Wed 4th October 2006, 2:40pm) 
jefu writes "According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press in order to detect threats to the United States. While the article says there are restrictions on doing this kind of monitoring within the US, there are no restrictions on media outside the US. (No hint is given as to how this would apply to syndicated articles
Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...5370/article.pl
Interesting article, but still not relevant. I could be wrong, though!
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