Introduction
Data mining is aimed at providing fully detailed reports allowing to analysis the necessary statistical data and giving access to website traffic. Data mining is an important element in political and economic spheres of state activities as it is used in various policies and practices by law enforcement agencies and Department of Justice. Its role is considered to be decisive in the national fight with terrorism and criminals tracking.
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It is a well known fact that the FBI refers to data mining for the purpose of tracking the potential terrorists as well as individuals breaking the national law. The US Department of Justice states that the development of data mining programs will be especially stressed, “Each of these initiatives is extremely valuable for investigators, allowing them to analyze and process lawfully acquired information more effectively in order to detect potential criminal activity and focus resources appropriately”. (Vijayan, 2007) The principle issues covered by such programs are aimed at: the decrease of terrorism level in the USA focusing on the individuals being identified as the ones of interest for FBI; identification of theft intelligence through the customers’ complaints; the examinations of real estate transactions. It should be noted that data mining is also concentrated on Internet pharmacy fraud and that one of automobile insurance. (Vijayan, 2007)
Law Enforcement agencies are focused on the usage of data mining for the purpose of national security interests promotion. The Federal Bureau of Investigation feels sharp demand in obtaining the data referring not only to the criminals but to the people the criminals had contact with. Taking into account the tragedy of September, 11, 2001, the FBI started to stick to data mining technique officials in order to get more links to potential terrorists and criminals.
The FBI used to petition the Federal Communications Commission to get access to Internet connections. It was explained by the fact that terrorists can use voice through the technologies of internet protocol in order to evade detection. The aim is to introduce changes into the networks for the terrorist patterns to be discerned and data to be tapped. Nevertheless it caused some problems connected with the development of the FBI project as the absence of discrete circuits cannot help in the location identification. The usage of data mining has its disadvantages because it can provide false facts or mixed crimes. “Internet data, whether it is transmitted via a digital subscriber line (DSL), cable modem or dial-up modem, mixes and mingles with packets of data from thousands of other users”, said the representative of Aaxis Technologies CEO. (Koprowski, 2004)
Conclusion
So, data mining can be analyzed from positive and negative side though its advantages far outweigh disadvantages. It is necessary to note that the usage of data mining helps FBI to have access to the necessary information for terrorism and crime tracking. Besides, it is useful for the decrease of economical and social thefts and crimes spread in modern world. Certainly internet basis is too sophisticated and one cannot but meet mistakes and data mixing which cause troubles and make the search more difficult. (Schneider, 2007) Despite this fact the promotion of data mining in current departments of justice and governmental bodies as well as security agencies will allow to reduce the number of crimes and get more chances to fight modern terrorism spread worldwide.
References
Koprowski, Gene. 2004. FBI Plans to Track Suspects with Data-Mining Techniques. Tech News World. Web.
Schneider, Gary. 2007. Electronic Commerce. Boston, Mass: Course Technology. Web.
Vijayan, Jailumar. 2007. FBI Data Mining Programs Target Terrorism, Fraud.Web.