Roll, TIDE
March 25th, 2007 Posted in Of InterestBut one said keeping tabs on your citizens is easy:
But in addressing one problem, TIDE has spawned others. Ballooning from fewer than 100,000 files in 2003 to about 435,000, the growing database threatens to overwhelm the people who manage it.
Just in case you need to put your annoying neighbor on the no-fly list:
The 80 TIDE analysts get “thousands of messages a day,” Travers said, much of the data “fragmentary,” “inconsistent” and “sometimes just flat-out wrong.”
TIDE is a vacuum cleaner for both proven and unproven information, and its managers disclaim responsibility for how other agencies use the data.
