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Management Information Systems 13e KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON CHAPTER 4 ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN E-COMMERCE CASE 3 Data Mining for Terrorists and Innocents VIDEO CASE Systems SUMMARY A look at how monitoring patterns of behavior online can be construed as subversive behavior, and how errors in interpreting the results can lead the innocent to jail. L=5:10. URL /watch?v=4lKpD7MC22I CASE Anti-terrorism agencies around the world have made effective use of new surveillance tech- nologies that offer unprecedented abilities to identify and apprehend potential terrorists. Today’s terrorists are by nature difficult to track, as disconnected groups of individuals can use the Internet to communicate their plans with lower chance of detection. Anti-terrorist technology has evolved to better handle this new type of threat. But there are drawbacks to these new strategies. Often, innocent people may find their privacy compromised or completely eliminated as a result of inaccurate information. Surveillance technologies are constantly improving. While this makes it more difficult for terrorists and other criminals to exchange information, it also jeopardizes our privacy, on the Internet and elsewhere, going forward. Is this reason for worry? Are comparisons to Orwell’s 1984 appropriate or overblown? This video displays both the positive and negative results of new advances in technology. The first segment describes a program called the Dark Web Project being developed by a continued Chapter 4, Case 3 Data Mining for Terrorist