"We should all be worried," said anthropology Professor David Price, also the author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State. "It's going to be used domestically, I imagine, as much as it is going to be used internationally."
Price, a critic of academics' collaboration with the Pentagon for its Human Terrain System
in Iraq and Afghanistan, which involves social scientists providing the
military with information on the local people and culture where troops
are deployed, none-the-less thinks open source intelligence can
potentially be very useful in preventing disasters.
However, he explained, "I don't see them wanting to predict and prevent things like famine, but rather they want to figure out ways to support regimes which support American interests as part of a larger political program we should all be worried about."
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