Monday, February 11, 2013

New spyware Riot tracks your behaviour on Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare …

The 2002 film with Tom Cruise showed a world where police could arrest murderers before they’d even committed a crime.

Now, just over a decade on, and new software has been developed which tracks online behaviour. It claims to build a picture of someone’s life – and predict their future movements.

The ‘extreme-scale analytics’ program called Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology has been created by Raytheon, the tech company specialising in defence and national security.

Riot uses Twitter and Facebook data and sifts GPS information from Foursquare, the mobile phone app with 25 million + users which alerts friends of their whereabouts.

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