SAS Institute
| SAS Institute Inc. |
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| Official Website: http://www.sas.com |
| Official about page: http://www.sas.com/en_us/company-information.html |
| Country: United States |
| Location: 100 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513-2414 |
| Founded: 1976 |
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| Contact |
| Phone: +1 919 677 8000 |
| Fax: +1 919 677 4444 |
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"One company, SAS Institute Inc. of North Carolina, teaches police that they can scrape and analyze massive volumes of data from the backsides of Facebook and Twitter – something not everyone even knows is possible.
Your data, now just a drop of ocean water, can be processed for keywords and geographic locations that reveal “patterns of interest” to police in real time. Relying on the SAS Institute’s Text Miner tool, police can single out both words and phrases and determine if a word is being used as a noun, verb or adjective. “Bomb,” for instance, can be all three.
“Unlike their commercial counterparts who monitor the Twitter stream for any mention of a product, law enforcement clients don’t necessarily know what they need to monitor on Twitter,” the institute wrote in a white paper [PDF] earlier this year titled, “Twitter and Facebook Analysis: It’s Not Just for Marketing Anymore.” Huffington Post
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9.4.2012 Web Surveillance Through Social Media Sites A Powerful Tool For Local Law Enforcement By G.W. Schulz Huffington Post (This story comes courtesy of California Watch.)
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