I thought this was reasonably public information for a few years now. IARPA (basically the intelligence agencies' version of DARPA) has had a series of public g

I thought this was reasonably public information for a few years now. IARPA (basically the intelligence agencies' version of DARPA) has had a series of public grant calls since the late 2000s for research on various kinds of data-mining in MMOs and virtual worlds, ranging from behavior modeling to transaction tracking. Of course, they didn't say precisely why they were interested in such research, but one could surmise... edit: Here's a 2008 Bruce Schneier post about it: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/searching_for_t.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/searching_for...