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Feds Open 'Total' Tech Spy System

Posted by timothy on from the what-privacy dept.

Diesel Dave writes "A Wired article reports: 'On Wednesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin awarding contracts for the design and implementation of a Total Information Awareness (TIA) system...The Total Information Awareness program, with its ability to provide persistent storage of everything from credit card, to employment, to medical, to ISP records, is a recipe for civil liberties disaster unless there are provisions for citizens to find out who is looking at their records and to see and correct those records.' The foundation for the omnipotent National ID database has now been laid."

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  1. When will these people learn? by RedElf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sometime I want to be heard with my name, other times I'm quite happy to be very anonymous...

    Just think about it, do you really want those horny 16 yearolds at the checkout stand to know who you are while you're picking up the tampons for your wife?

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  2. This is old news by danny256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft's passport system has been around for years.

  3. Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "The Total Information Awareness program"

    To me, that is Slashdot! I read it 20-50 times a day...

  4. NSA Authority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't the NSA already doing this? Isn't that what it's for?

    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. " -Ben Franklin

    1. Re:NSA Authority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Americans deserve neither liberty or safety"
      -John Ashcroft

  5. So DARPA is taking a page from Google's book... by guttentag · · Score: 3, Funny

    So DARPA is taking a page from Google's book. Does the winner get $10,000 in cash, a VIP visit to the Pentagon in Arlington, VA and the possibility of running their prize winning code on DARPA's supercomputers?

  6. Open source is the answer by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the /. community objects to this, the solution is clear... we mount an open source bid for the contract, which should (as the product will be free as in beer) be guaranteed to win the contract on price grounds.

    Then we just 'do a mozilla' and keep adding wonderful new features but never actually deliver the damn thing :-)

    problem solved!

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  7. Re:it's coming... by __aadhrk6380 · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Hmm, Citizen #95235345 just bought a DVD-R unit and downloaded a copy of DeCSS. Set his Awareness Level to 15%, and send a copy of his Dossier to Media Control for further study. Excellent, we might yet meet our Enforcement quota this week!)

    Oh my GOD! The fed's are going to start awarding karma!