Big Data/Operation Condor

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Yet another link from the "Nation" with interesting 
information loosely related to various aspects of BE:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/185017/anti-socialist-origins-big-data

On "computerized intelligence systems, including software" 
provided to South American dictatorships by the U.S.:

'The information being handled by this equipment might not 
have been “big data,” but the idea was the same: to gather 
real-time intelligence from as many sources as possible, 
analyze it, act as quickly and in as coordinated a manner 
as possible, and then store it for future use. These 
upgrades allowed intelligence agencies, either working in 
tandem through Condor or individually, to kill or 
disappear more than 100,000 Latin American citizens and 
torture maybe an equal number.'

An exaggeration of the importance of the software, I 
suspect, but interesting nevertheless.

Thomas
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