Methods used by the NYPD's Demographics Unit to identify targets include "countries of interest", "religious institutions and congregations" and "specific ethnicities".
This can be done by labelling specific countries of interest, particularly high or low risk environments, or countries in which data is not available but where this is vitally needed to improve understanding of an issue.
According to a previously unreleased top-secret PowerPoint presentation from 2012, titled "Exploiting Foreign Lawful Intercept Roundtable", the agency's "countries of interest" for this work included, at that time, Mexico, Indonesia, Egypt and others.
In the cable requesting intelligence from UN diplomats, it names specific countries of interest, including China, France, Japan, Mexico, Russia and the European Union, and seeks biographical details of individuals such as credit card and frequent-flyer numbers.
First, we describe child-birth related policies in the countries of interest.
This section presents the number of road fatalities and selected fatality rates for the four countries of interest.
