Die New York Times berichtet über eine Einkaufstour der NSA im Silicon Valley. Begehrtes Suchobjekt sind Firmen, welche innovative Data-Mining Lösungen anbieten: Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data.

But by fundamentally changing the nature of surveillance, high-tech data mining raises privacy concerns that are only beginning to be debated widely. That is because to find illicit activities it is necessary to turn loose software sentinels to examine all digital behavior whether it is innocent or not.