CIA’s Chief Tech Officer on Big Data: We Try to Collect Everything and Hang Onto It Forever

CIA’s Chief Tech Officer on Big Data: We Try to Collect Everything and Hang Onto It Forever

January 4, 2016



03/20/2013

The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday.

Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira “Gus” Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos — and that the agency wants all of it.

“The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time,” Hunt said. “Since you can’t connect dots you don’t have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever.”

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