With the advent of social media, suddenly military and security agencies had direct access to the minds and lives of guards, clerks, girlfriends, and runners of criminal and terrorist organizations all around the world. What the social data offered was a trail of detailed personal information that previously would have taken months of careful observation to gather. The targets were in effect creating their own dossiers with rich data that could quicken a psychologist’s assessment of their disposition. This spurred a host of research into psychological profiling that could be automated with
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