Freaky Data Mining

I know I haven't been updating my blog much lately, but this one I just had to scream about. The New York Times has published an article describing a project funded by the Department of Homeland Security that aims to develop software capable of interpreting the attitude of a newspaper article towards the United States. The headline is somewhat misleading as legally the program couldn't be used within the USA at all, but the mere existence of such software would frighten me...I'm not real big on the datamining capabilities our government has as it is.