Raytheon has not yet sold RIOT to any clients but has been shared with the US government as part of a joint research project to develop a Big Data system capable of surveilling large parts of the population. The software can also pull metadata from pictures taken to pinpoint a user’s location when the picture was taken. From this and other location data taken from applications i.e Foursquare, the software can predict future movements of users. Privacy organisations have warned that users will have to reevaluate privacy settings on social networks to avoid themselves from being targetted in online searches by others.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/02/defence-develop-software-that-can-track.html