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Legislator Opposes Total Information Awareness
Posted by Paul Szynol on Thursday, January 16 @ 00:05:04 EST News
Russ Feingold, D-Wisc. on Thursday will introduce a bill that argues for the suspension (termination?) of the Total Information Awareness project.

Apparently, other members of Congress have expressed concern about the project's use. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), for instance, have, in a letter, asked John Ashcroft "to disclose how the Justice Department and the Defense Department were using TIA or similar programs."

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Re: Legislator Opposes Total Information Awareness (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, January 16 @ 01:34:11 EST
Shades of the Office of Strategic Influence debacle all over again. Goodness, it'll probably be sort of a "okay, we'll give you your sacrificial goat, and go on doing the work" type of response, since TIA is a research program, not a surveillance program. Unless, of course, they pass legislation to ban government funding of research into security.


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Re: Legislator Opposes Total Information Awareness (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, January 16 @ 08:36:50 EST
I agree with the legislator -- I'm in favor of Partial Information Awareness. "Total" Information Awareness is just too much information to be aware of.


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