OpenSocial Risk Profile?
Posted on December 3, 2007
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Today I read in the Washington Post article U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave Country that the United States plans to:
screen all people who enter and leave the United States, create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that information for up to 40 years.
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“We gather, collect information that is needed to protect the borders,” Agen said. “We store the information we see as pertinent to keeping Americans safe.”
This got me to thinking: how cool would it be if the US government made these profiles available via Google’s OpenSocial platform and really opened up the data. Then I could incorporate my TerrorProfile into my Facebook profile and all my friends could see where I stand vs. them.
We could see who has the highest TerrorProfile rating, who’s got the widest TerrorNet network (”dude, you’re linked to Al-Zawahiri! Lucky!”), mash it up with your iTunes playlist (”yeah, I was really into Korn back when my TR was 54 but I’ve been a 15 since I discovered Tori Amos”), and so forth.
Could be fun.
Update: I guess the joke was an obvious one after all.
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