Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | NUMERIAN: "If there is anything that drives Washington to a greater frenzy than spying on all Americans, it is the opportunity to do that spying in the private sector, as subcontractors to the NSA. In 1999 a middle-management employee of the NSA was given the task of analyzing how the NSA was going to develop the capability to analyze the growing volume of data being produced in the digital world. That employee, James R. Clapper, formed a one-man task force and came to the conclusion it wasn't possible for the NSA to do this task; or, better put, "why should it reinvent the wheel." The work of metadata analysis, as it was now called, was already being done suitably in the corporate world, so he recommended the NSA outsource this work to corporations." |