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Act On Total Information Awareness

Posted by timothy on from the know-everything dept.

pberry writes "The EFF Action Center has two new alerts (1, 2) on stopping "Total Information Awareness." TIA is a collection of DARPA-funded initiatives that are very scary. The project is headed by Admiral John Poindexter and has no implementation guidelines thus far. In other words, it is misguided to say that these tools will be used in any particular way, but it is clear that if they do what they say they will, America could be a very scary place to live."

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  1. Get a life.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You folks need to look at the world again. It's been almost completely concluded that 9/11 happened because of US Intelligence failures. This TIA thing is research into how to improve it and prevent another 9/11. All they're doing is looking at current processing of intelligence information (like finding people on CIA Watchlists taking flight lessons) and seeing what can be done to make it better. It has nothing to do with spying on anyone.