“Before Ahmad Khan Rahami planted bombs in New York and New Jersey, he bought bomb-making materials on eBay, linked to jihad-related videos from his public social-media account and was looked into by law enforcement agents, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
If only the authorities had connected the dots.
That challenge — mining billions of bits of information and crunching the data to find crucial clues — is behind a push by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to harness ‘big data’ to predict crimes, terrorist acts and social upheaval before they happen. The market for such ‘predictive analytics’ technology is estimated to reach $9.2 billion by 2020, up from $3 billion in 2015, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets.”
Source: Predicting Terrorism From Big Data Challenges U.S. Intelligence – Bloomberg
