Title :
When Counting is Not Enough: Limitations of NSA´s Effectiveness Assessment of Surveillance Technology
Author :
Cayford, Michelle ; Van Gulijk, Coen ; Gelder, P.H.A.J.M.
Author_Institution :
Safety & Security Sci. Group, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
The NSA has justified their surveillance programs by presenting the number of terrorist activities these programs disrupted. This paper finds this method of measuring the effectiveness of surveillance technology by counting successful cases to be not enough. It is only one measure of assessing effectiveness and should not be used in isolation to determine a technology´s effectiveness.
Keywords :
national security; surveillance; terrorism; NSA effective assessment; surveillance programs; surveillance technology; technology effectiveness; terrorist activities; Auditory system; Government; Presses; Privacy; Surveillance; Terrorism; NSA; effectiveness; surveillance technology;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC), 2014 IEEE Joint
Conference_Location :
The Hague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6363-8
DOI :
10.1109/JISIC.2014.80
