"Riot" software was developed by the Massachusetts- based security firm. It's meaning: Rapid Information Overlay Technology. It was designed to "quickly mine various social networks for an individual user's data". It uses previous posts to predict future behavior/ or your location at any given time. This software is capable of many things, one of many being its capabilities to find the top 10 places a person visits most often.
Geotagged photos can be laid out on a map, making it extremely easy for people to track you and see where you've been.
This spy software has not yet been sold to federal authorities or any law enforcement agencies. If it eventually is, will that be a violation of privacy? Will social security numbers or private financial data be in jeopardy?
"Riot is a big data analytics system design we are working on with industry, national labs and commercial partners to help turn massive amounts of data into usable information to help meet our nation's rapidly changing security needs,"
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/11/3975904/riot-software-could-help-governments-spy-on-you-with-social-networks
It's not "spying". It's just data mining of anything that you choose to put on the internet anyway. As long as it doesn't turn into a big cooperation with insurance companies, which it hasn't yet... then it should be fine. There would be a huge ethics issue if that were to happen.
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