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The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people

Christian Grothoff 1 Jens Porup 2 
1 TAMIS - Threat Analysis and Mitigation for Information Security
Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique , IRISA-D4 - LANGAGE ET GÉNIE LOGICIEL
2 Freelance cybersecurity reporter [Toronto]
Abstract : In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that "we kill people based on metadata." Now, a new examination of previously published Snowden documents suggests that many of those people may have been innocent.
Keywords : false-positives Drones Machine learning SKYNET NSA
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Christian Grothoff, Jens Porup. The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people. Ars Technica, WIRED Media Group, 2016. ⟨hal-01278193⟩

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