From what little has been confirmed, the system we know about works "better" the more connections you feed into it.
I doubt they intended to find anyone directly using this information. Instead, what is more likely is that collecting data in these games might help identify "friends" of people considered suspicious via some other means.
Although now that I think of it, games like WoW and EVE Online do make for quite a milieu. I know that several of my colleagues play such games and with each other.
It certainly chills the spine a bit when you realize that there are people who've had this kind of data for quite some time, using it for who-knows-what...
I doubt they intended to find anyone directly using this information. Instead, what is more likely is that collecting data in these games might help identify "friends" of people considered suspicious via some other means.
Although now that I think of it, games like WoW and EVE Online do make for quite a milieu. I know that several of my colleagues play such games and with each other.
It certainly chills the spine a bit when you realize that there are people who've had this kind of data for quite some time, using it for who-knows-what...