AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance

AT&T Researchers have developed 'Hancock', a C language-based programming language designed for mining the company's telephone and internet records for surveillance purposes. The initial purpose was to develop marketing leads by determining what AT&T calls "communities of interest", an analysis of who is talking to whom.

Wired Blog Network says

...it's of interest because of recent revelations that the FBI has been requesting "communities of interest" records from phone companies under the USA PATRIOT Act without a warrant.

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