Explain How Homeland Security Programs Now Rely on the Use

question 12

Essay

Explain how homeland security programs now rely on the use of "big data".

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

A cognitive bias where individuals attribute their successes to personal factors and their failures to external factors.

Conspiracy Theory

Explanation of widespread, complex and worrying events in terms of the premeditated actions of small groups of highly organised conspirators.

Socio-historical Explanation

An approach to understanding phenomena by examining social and historical contexts.

Deductive Reasoning

A logical process where a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true.