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DARPA to Fund TIA Study

Posted by michael on from the panopticon dept.

clonebarkins writes "Federal Computer Week has an article on a DARPA-funded study of privacy-related concerns related to TIA. "We envision software that will mask the identity of any individual whose pattern of activities triggers the suspicion of investigators," says the program manager of the Information and Intelligence Exploitation Division. Yeah, sure--that'll happen about as soon as Ashcroft converts to Islam."

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  1. Bad idea... by Paddyish · · Score: 5, Insightful
    In theory, TIA would enable national security analysts to detect, classify, track, understand and pre-empt terrorist attacks against the United States by drawing upon surveillance and patterns in public and private transactions.

    And in theory, communism worked beautifully. Too bad no one thought it through to the nth iteration...

    It would be interesting to see details on how
    1.) 'Threatening' patterns and their levels are selected, and
    2.) How someone could spam the system with threatening activity.

    Mmmm...spam...