Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency
Prototyping counterveillance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Gradecki (0000-0002-7318-1979, Michigan State University, corresponding author), Derek Curry (0000-0003-1995-1191, University at Buffalo, State University of New York) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Big Data & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2053951717693259 |
| OpenAlex | W2586155197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper discusses how an interactive artwork, the Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency (CSIA), can contribute to discussions of Big Data intelligence analytics. The CSIA is a publicly accessible Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) system that was constructed using information gathered from technical manuals, research reports, academic papers, leaked documents, and Freedom of Information Act files. Using a visceral heuristic, the CSIA demonstrates how the statistical correlations made by automated classification systems are different from human judgment and can produce false-positives, as well as how the display of information through an interface can affect the judgment of an intelligence agent. The public has the right to ask questions about how a computer program determines if they are a threat to national security and to question the practicality of using statistical pattern recognition algorithms in place of human judgment. Currently, the public's lack of access to both Big Data and the actual datasets intelligence agencies use to train their classification algorithms keeps the possibility of performing effective sous-dataveillance out of reach. Without this data, the results returned by the CSIA will not be identical to those of intelligence agencies. Because we have replicated how OSINT is processed, however, our results will resemble the type of results and mistakes made by OSINT systems. The CSIA takes some initial steps toward contributing to an informed public debate about large-scale monitoring of open source, social media data and provides a prototype for counterveillance and sousveillance tools for citizens
Analytics · Big data · Computer security · Data mining · Data science · Human intelligence · Intelligence analysis · National security · Political science · Sociology · United States National Security Agency · Computer Science · Digital and Cyber Forensics · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |