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DARPA reports on TIA (with new name!)
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:18:57 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 19:21:19 -0700 (PDT) To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com, neumann () pfir org Subject: DARPA reports on TIA (with new name!) Dave, DARPA has released their new report to Congress on TIA, featuring a name change (apparently today) from "Total Information Awareness" to "Terrorism Information Awareness." (The all-seeing eye logo and Latin "knowledge is power" slogan are long gone, replaced with a more abstract graphic.) To quote the DARPA Web site: ... The program's previous name, "Total Information Awareness" program, created in some minds the impression that TIA was a system to be used for developing dossiers on U.S. citizens. That is not DoD's intent in pursuing this program. Rather, DoD's purpose in pursuing these efforts is to protect U.S. citizens by detecting and defeating foreign terrorist threats before an attack. Therefore, to make this objective absolutely clear, on May 20, DARPA changed the program name to Terrorism Information Awareness ... By the way, the DARPA spokeswoman I heard today suggested that the correct pronounciation of the program is "Tee-ah" -- not T-I-A. The full report is at: http://www.darpa.mil/body/tia/tia_report_page.htm DARPA seems to feel that TIA would violate no current U.S. privacy laws, and that the name change will result in fewer "misunderstandings" about the program's purpose. A rose by any other name? --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () pfir org or lauren () vortex com or lauren () privacyforum org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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