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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."

2 of 255 comments (clear)

  1. 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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    A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
  2. 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!