Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Total Information Awareness still Running

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-brother-is-listening dept.

gordm writes "National Journal reports that, instead of being shut down 2 years ago, the Total Information Awareness program is still datamining away. Must be effective. What else could explain Morrissey's latest adventure?" Just posting this story probably puts me on their radar.

1 of 337 comments (clear)

  1. I think it is a good thing by brennz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't care if the Fed is running a project to profile terrorists based off financial transactions, purchases, telecommunications, all that jazz. Many private industries like choicepoint already gathered information close to that previously, not to mention the phone records etc.

    What is scary though, is that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger identified members of the 9-11 terrorist group prior to their attack, yet the wall of seperation between the military and law enforcement created by Jamie Gorelick was sufficient to deter that information sharing to the FBI (Able Danger was a SOCOM project).

    We in the US already know we don't have half the consumer protections our european cousins have. That is why companies share our information all the time, for cash. While it isn't something I like, it isn't something I can stop either. If those companies are exploiting my personal info for cash, why can't the US govt use that same kind of info to protect us?

    All the slashdot conspiracy theorists need to wake up and smell the coffee. This is not 1960. The US now has very real enemies seeking to get here and slaughter innocents. Get off your stupid America hating, "we caused this" retarded platform too.

    I'm all for TIA, and I'd love to see a biometric national ID card next.