Multinational defence contractor Raytheon has developed the 'extreme-scale analytics' software which can sift through vast quantities of data from services like Facebook, Twitter and Google.
Critics have already dubbed it a 'Google for spies' and say it is likely to be used by governments as a means of monitoring and tracking people online to detect signs of dissent.
'Google for spies': A screengrab of a video
demonstrating Raytheon's Riot software, which mines the personal data
from social networking websites to track people's movements and even
predict their future behaviour
