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:So basically... by rifter · 2003-05-21 04:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

What is scary is that right now the US appears to be at war with Eurasia and at peace with EastAsia. The US was always at war with Eurasia and at peace with EastAsia. France has always been our enemy. Libya has always been our ally. Long live GWB! :)