Summary
The U.S. Intelligence Community faces major challenges resulting from the information revolution. First, an exponential increase in the volume of data being generated threatens to overwhelm an already over-tasked collection and analytic structure. Secondly, the vast majority of useful information today is publicly-available, a fact the IC has struggled to come to terms with and that could obviate its classified collection model. Lastly, both of these problems contribute to a growing disengagement by the end-users of finished intelligence, American policymakers.
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WNU Editor: Half of the world's population is now online .... More than half of global population now online: UN (AFP). With that many people online, and with intel agencies scooping up everything that they deem is important, to identify and find meaningful intelligence that can be useful in a very short period of time must be difficult and complex. And to then convince policy and decision makers on what is important .... doubly so. There is also the problem of having much of the world's data available for everyone to see (if they want to find it). So much for keeping secrets secret.
