The local police, the A.T.F., the F.B.I., and the U.S. Marshals Service all had special warrant units, using computer-mapping software, cell-phone tracking, and intelligence from every conceivable database: Social Security records, court records, hospital-admission records, electricity and gas bills, and employment records.
Technorati is designing its own service for corporate tracking and business intelligence.
While Norway and the United States say the primary purpose of the new radar is to monitor space debris, Russia has raised concerns that it will track and gather intelligence on missiles launched from bases in western Russia.
There's little doubt that the regime could do so if it wished: "Since it's state telecom that provides access, it's safe to say the government could turn the internet off at any point," says Doug Madory, senior analyst at Renesys, a firm which tracks internet data and intelligence and has been monitoring the situation in Syria.
Ferguson agreed: "[Alleged Silk Road owner and operator Ross William] Ulbricht was tracked via good traditional investigative techniques, research and intelligence, tracking his mistakes on the open internet, such as making postings on forums in his own name, while tracing illegal packages that were received at the US border.
The most persuasive estimate I've heard comes from Malcolm Nance, the author of The Terrorists of Iraq and a twenty-year intelligence veteran and Arabic speaker who has worked with military and intelligence units tracking al-Qaeda inside Iraq.
Automated tracking cannot replace the intuition and intelligence of a human observer needed to establish a new behavior paradigm.
The Clinton Response A Growing Priority, Hamstrung by Process Throughout President Clinton's eight years in office, law enforcement and intelligence agencies tracked Al Qaeda through a succession of plots in the United States and overseas.
The company, founded in 2004, had one of the largest datasets on mobile app usage and intelligence, having tracked hundreds of thousands of apps and mobile networks worldwide.
▪ In 1776 a young schoolteacher named Nathan Hale was caught trying to track and expose the military and intelligence operations of the only established, legitimate government of his time.
Certainly, the security and intelligence agencies lost track of him.
