Act On Total Information Awareness

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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Easy No Brainer

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The only way to halt TIA is to overwhelmingly convince a lot of people that they would be hurt if TIA were implemented.

However, abuses of TIA by bureaucracies and, indeed, by corporations, are a slow creeping disease that impacts only a small percentage of the population.

The question is: when the abuses grow to the point where a lot of people do disagree with them, will those people have the power to change what they see wrong?

By that time, however, disagreement with TIA will be viewed as "aiding and abetting terrorists" and could be accompanied by suspension of various rights, particularly voting.

People don't seem to care if they get a cure that's worse than the disease.