How Much is Your Data Worth to the Intelligence Community?

Before social media, information was called data. People produced data by researching and identifying facts, particularly statistics.

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Data meant objectivity, a resource for understanding. Raw data preferred, analyzed by experts to gain significance over information.

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Toffler predicted the transformative "information age," surpassing the industrial revolution in economic and cultural impact.

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1980: Mainframes industrial/military. Computing's potential in daily life emerged. Word processing enabled personal expression in data.

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1990s: Internet and social media replaced data with information. IT became a major sector, replacing Data Processing.

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Data replaced by information, changing its meaning. "Informing" shifted to a marketable commodity in the digital era.

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WSJ: Commercially available information (CAI) replicates results of intrusive surveillance techniques due to its vast scale.

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Old notion: sharing knowledge for benefit. New notion: buying and selling information as a commercial commodity.

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