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."

Comments

Re:Only used against 'terrorists'

[ThaReetLad]

except that it should have been who's

Re:Rebranding

[elefantstn]

Keeping the Jessica Lynch fake-story line in your sig even after the reporter who wrote it admitted he was wrong seems kind of stupid. The kind of thing that makes everyone discount whatever you say in the body of your comments.

Re:Rebranding

[elefantstn]

From an interview with the article's author on CNN:

HARRIS: Is it your belief right now based upon your investigation that this rescue of Lynch was in any way a staged event and not real?

KAMPFNER: No. First things first. Credit where it is due. The Americans had a legitimate right in getting Lynch out of the hospital in Nasiriya. They had no way of knowing what her fate was, whether she was being well or badly treated.

Re:Rebranding

[pubjames]

From an interview with the article's author on CNN:

Jeeze, you're being a bit selective with the interview there. Did you read the whole thing? If you read the whole thing it does give a very different impression than just that selective statement.

The Lynch cover-up....what is the point?

[AtariAmarok]

I wonder what the goal of creating such a "Fake" story would be? Why would someone go to the bother of it?

I cannot see how it makes anyone feel differently about the United States military, one way or another. The only person I feel strongly favorable toward is that Iraqi lawyers who helped Lynch, and I do not see how that helps a "propaganda war".