Pentagon Soft-Pedals Total Information Awareness

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 20, 2003 @09:50PM from the spun-spins-will-have-spun dept.

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."

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Re:wow by dakers27 · 2003-05-20 22:16 · Score: 1, Flamebait

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.