Data intelligence complex is the real story

Data intelligence complex is the real story More than half a century ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans of the dangers posed by the country’s growing “military-industrial complex” – a phrase that entered instantly into everyday language.

Ike was chiefly warning about the power of the Pentagon and the big defence companies that had grown up around it. Today his prescience would be applied to America’s vast army of federally-employed data analysts and the hundreds of software companies they employ.

The US spends at least $80bn a year on intelligence alone, which is more than the defence budgets of all but a handful of countries.
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