CIA's Chief Tech Officer on Big Data - We Try to Collect Everything and Hang Onto It Forever
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Subject: CIA's Chief Tech Officer on Big Data - We Try to Collect Everything and Hang Onto It Forever Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:01 pm
I’m only here and learned of this 30 minute talk given by Ira “Gus” Hunt in 2013 because of Snowden's book - "Permanent Record". I’ve almost finished reading it in a two day marathon. Yes, it’s that good and I couldn’t put it down. Buy the book. You’ll thank me later after you’ve read it. It’s engaging and easy to read.
And yes, I have recorded and archived this video in case it should go poof! Now that Snowden has made mention of it towards the end of his book I expect it may not survive much longer on YouTube. Also see The Huffington Post article linked below, also from 2013.
Show Notes wrote:
03/20/2013 The CIA's chief technology officer outlined the agency's endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday.
Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira "Gus" Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos -- and that the agency wants all of it.
"The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever."
Subject: CIA's Chief Tech Officer on Big Data - We Try to Collect Everything and Hang Onto It Forever 
Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:01 pm
