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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. offtopic, but funny LOTR reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just fired up a window on my wife's computer (homepage is my.yahoo.com) and the top news article's paper really had me double glancing. Real picture? A Hamas spiritual leader... but I could have sworn it was Saruman... even looking at it now, the similarities are frightening. That Dooku is EVERYWHERE!

  2. Hey Asshole.. by DraKKon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How does being an aethist make you unAmerican? I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts on this.

    More people have DIED over religious wars than any political war..

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