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EFF's Tien on DARPA's TIA Report

Posted by timothy on from the harshing-their-mellow dept.

scubacuda writes "Lee Tien, EFF's Senior Staff Attorney, critically looks at DARPA's 'Report to Congress regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program.' Tien considered the report a major disappointment. 'The government had an opportunity to open public discourse about TIA; for the most part, it chose to hide behind broad and vague generalities.' The 'report's discussion of privacy is too limited.' It 'ignores problems in existing privacy laws,' and 'gives short shrift to other civil liberty issues.'"

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  1. umm civil liberties??? by shaitand · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For those who don't know, DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka the MILITARY. These aren't exactly the guys who can be counted on to consider civil liberties.

    1. Re:umm civil liberties??? by xutopia · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Actually that is Terrorism Information Awareness now. It's not so bad now is it?

      Next the Bush administration will call tax cuts "economy boost package" rather than what it is "getting rich off the backs of normal Americans"

      Of course it's for the best interest of Americans*

      *Well admitedly a selected bunch, the Bush, Dick and Colon families...

  2. T for Texas, T for Tennessee by stanwirth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Interesting how the T in TIA went from "Total" to "Terrorism" in one swell foop. sigh! Oh well.

    "T for Texas, T for Tennessee" is from an old Jimmy Rogers song by the same name.

  3. But I feel safer now by chriso11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    When it was called Total Information Awareness, I was against it. Of course, the new Terrorism Information Awareness is a good thing. It will help defend us against evildoers and terrorists. Anyone against it must be supporters of terrorists!!

    I'm glad we can trust the Government. It's not like before, when the Government was run by those perverted Democrats!

    --
    No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.
  4. In further news.... by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 3, Funny
    A terrifying bill was passed by congress during the NBA playoffs.

    --
    "Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
  5. GCD by js7a · · Score: 2, Informative

    The term is Greatest Common Denominator, but the merit of the metaphor stands.

  6. Anti-SARS masks and face recognition by phr2 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Face recognition is one of the TIA components Tien lists. I see a lot of folks wearing surgical masks to ward off SARS infection. I wonder if those masks could stay in style after the SARS panic tapers off, and whether there are some that cover enough of the face to defeat face recognition cameras.

    Kill two birds with one stone.