Homeland Security Tests Snoop Computer System

Parallax Blue writes "The Washington Times reports that Homeland Security has developed and is testing a new computer system called ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement) that collects and analyzes personal information on US citizens. Relevant data 'can include credit-card purchases, telephone or Internet details, medical records, travel and banking information.' The program apparently uses the same process as the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project, which was aborted in 2003 due to privacy concerns."

Comments

Re:ADVISE

[drgonzo59]

people try to say "the word" that the acronym is trying to spell out.

Wat? Spel? Us...Amerikanz? Haha...ha...haha!

Re:Bad, bad, bad...

[beinh0wer]

Hah! I only wish they did use this to 'prevent' 9/11. Then maybe the U.S. public would finally learn that the whole thing was orchestrated by our own government to enact all these new 'security' laws which protect us from these 'terrorists' while destroying our civil liberties and to convince us we needed to go to war in a country supposedly to remove (non-existant) WMD's but in reality to get their oil. But of course since this software has been in existence for a while now, by just typing this I most likely will show up on some terrorist watch list. I guess I'll just wait for the FBI/Secret Service to show up this morning :) It's a sad state of affairs we find ourselves in. Bring on the revolution...