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Pentagon Soft-Pedals Total Information Awareness
PizzaFace writes "Congress was concerned that the Pentagon's 'Total Information Awareness' program would invade citizens' privacy, so it gave the program the red light until the Pentagon addressed Congress's privacy concerns. DARPA, the Pentagon technology agency that brought us the Internet in more innocent times, showed its Total Marketing Awareness by renaming the TIA program, 'Terrorism Information Awareness.' The gist of its report seems to be that data may be collected from everyone, but it will only be used against evildoers. You can read DARPA's report and a background story from the Washington Post."
Of course the answer to my question was "yes" :), and the sad thing that most people here are... I don't know what percentage of people believe in Creation Science, but i'd be willing to wager that it's about the same percentage that go for shit like this. No wonder republicans cater to the more religious people, if someone believes all the bullshit that goes along with christianity, then selling them on other outrageous ideas isn't nearly as hard.
Still think I'm full of shit when I say that the world is going to turn itself into a police state and that the end result will be a stable form of government capable of lasting thousands of years?
The world is going to turn into Police state? You call the US the world these days? Who else is playing the role of world police? Name one country. And, name another country besides the US who has more foreign threats than domestic threats? And why?
No wonder security stuff and privacy is such a big issue.... and even bigger mess in your homeland
-Is the meaning of life vanity, or is vanity the meaning of life?
No, sorry, won't cater to your anti-american viewpoint.
Fuck you very much, have a nice day.
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