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Data mining searches large databases for unexpected patterns of data- and its used by everyone from Amazon to political campaigns to government and law resources. But some say the technology crosses the lines of public versus private information.
Usama Fayyad, Founder and president, DMX Group, a business and technology consulting group
Lee Strickland, Visiting Professor and Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland, College Park
Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief, Reason magazine
Angelique Waller, artist, author "Data Mining the Amazon"
A storm is brewing in the Caribbean -- a political storm that is. And it centers around accusations that the US is trampling on the sovereign rights of the region's small but dedicated democracies. How events in Haiti are stressing out relations with some of America's closest friends.
Dan Erikson, Director of The Caribbean Program, Inter-American Dialogue
O'Neil Hamilton, Director of Public Information, Embassy of Jamaica
Rickey Singh, journalist covering Caribbean issues, based in Barbados
Peter DeShazo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Western Hemisphere, US Department of State
One Spring night in Ireland, a rag-tag group of thieves snatched 18 paintings worth a total of $100 million, including one Vermeer. Learn how this robbery set off a chain of events leading to several complicated sting operations, an assassination, and revelations about the mysterious world of stolen art.
Matthew Hart, author, "The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art"
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