International migration, remittances and intelligent analysis of semi-structured data from the open sources (editorial)
International migration, remittances and intelligent analysis of semi-structured data from the open sources (editorial)

Summary/Abstract: With the growing importance of international migration in today’s world, new threats that include international terrorism and espionage (including cyber-espionage) are also emerging. With regard to the above, it becomes important to run intelligent surveillance of the open source data that circle the World Wide Web. This editorial poses some important questions regarding the use of intelligent analysis of semi-structured data from the open sources for keeping track of international migrants and their remittances. The important discussion that arises here is whether it is appropriate to dig for digital information for the sake of national security of Western democracies.

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