Intelligence agencies are increasingly interested in mining open-source intelligence, particularly online, but the proliferation of voices, whether on social networks, blogs, or elsewhere, can be challenging to make sense of.

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Unlike with traditional TV campaigns, advertisers online can increasingly target commercials at precisely the right sort of people, using sophisticated data mining and tracking technology.

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I. mining Facebook have people thinking more seriously about how law enforcement goes about collecting information online.

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At just 22, Philbrook has built a nice business for himself, mining the access void left by the big, national flat-rate providers like America Online.

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