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:Nothing to see here, move along.

[arminw]

.....blackmailing people.......

Those who live clean honest lives are very difficult to blackmail. Perhaps those don't go into politics much however.

The gap between morality and uprightness and the laws is becoming wider all the time. Politicians pile law upon law. Somehow these laws have to be enforced. Technology is not the problem. The problem lies in the hearts of people who do not wish to obey the Ten Commandments. If those simple rules are flouted, then why bother to obey all the uncountable laws that all the politicians have passed since?

Re:Nothing to see here, move along.

[arminw]

....world is more complicated than the Ten Commandments allow for.......

OK then, let's simplify it and leave God out for the moment. How about just keeping the second one? That would solve the problem of blackmail for sure, as well as most other problems we have in the world.