https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/03/13/report-ice-agents-given-access-to-private-license-plate-database/#more-161196

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3430987.stm

The company behind the software was founded in 1999 by researchers from the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the investment arm of the CIA to develop its MetaCarta Geographic Text Search program.

The software automatically extracts geographic references from text documents such as e-mails or webpages.

Millions of documents can be searched using keywords, place names or a time reference.

Search results appear as points on a map instead of as a list of documents. The company says this information can be used, for example, to track patterns of criminal activity and identify spots of intensity.

The software relies on the reliability of the documents searched. But the program tries to take account of some of these factors by making sure it has found the right location.

This can be particularly tricky in the Middle East, where many place names are the same as a person's name.

To counter this, the MetaCarta software uses an AI process to make sense of the geographical information, rating the results on a probability factor.