{"id":20977,"date":"2016-06-05T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2016-06-05T20:09:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:09:23","slug":"the-government-is-building-a-database-to-predict-who-will-be-the-next-edward-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20977","title":{"rendered":"The Government Is Building A Database To Predict Who Will Be The Next Edward Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Government Is Building A Database To Predict Who Will Be The Next Edward Snowden<\/a><\/h3>\n

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CREDIT: AP PHOTO\/PATRICK SEMANSKY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., in 2013. Manning was convicted in military court and sentenced to 35 years for violating the Espionage Act when she leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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While police departments flock to use technology that predicts crime, the U.S. military is\u00a0building a database<\/a>\u00a0that goes a step further \u2014 predicting who is most likely to reveal state secrets.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is developing a data system that collects information on government employees and contractors with security clearances in hopes of being able to pinpoint those with the potential to become whistleblowers, Defense One\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cDOD Component Insider Threat Records System\u201d is part of the military\u2019s response to classified documents leaked by former PFC Chelsea Manning in 2010, which revealed U.S. military practices including civilian deaths and physical abuse of detainees during the Iraq War.<\/p>\n

As a junior Army intelligence analyst with a\u00a0top-secret security clearance<\/a>, Manning had access to a classified computer system and downloaded more than 700,000 documents in what has been considered the largest breach in military history.<\/p>\n

Following Manning\u2019s 2013 conviction and the shooting attacks at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., the Defense Department took steps to prevent the next leak by creating a \u201ccentralized hub\u201d for detecting potential internal threats, Defense One reported. DOD assembled experts in psychology, cybersecurity, and intelligence to lead an \u201cinsider threat\u201d task force and oversee the security clearance database.<\/p>\n

The database is continually\u00a0updated with information<\/a>\u00a0on security-clearance holders\u2019 criminal and mental health history, financial information, drug and alcohol use, citizenship status, fingerprints, and other available biometric data.<\/p>\n

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The Government Is Building A Database To Predict Who Will Be The Next Edward Snowden CREDIT: AP PHOTO\/PATRICK SEMANSKY Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., in 2013. Manning was convicted in military court and sentenced to 35 years for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9847,14009,249,14008,765,843,876],"class_list":["post-20977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chelsea-manning","tag-database","tag-edward-snowden","tag-lauren-c-williams","tag-surveillance","tag-us-government","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20978,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions\/20978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}