In November I wrote an article that talked about a report that was released in which Admiral John Poindexter was supposed to head a broad new project dubbed TIA or total information awareness. The project goal was to incorporate many federal and non-federal databases of information together for use against terrorism. The system which seems extremely useful at preventing terrorism can also open a Pandora’s Box of privacy invasion. If there were little to no restirictions on the system and anyone in law enforcement had the ability to use such a system, the privacy of all americans would be at risk of being exposed, the consequences of which are incomprehensible
(January 30, 2003) Yesterday Internetnew.com ran a article written by Roy Mark on how the CIA has just won jurisdiction and complete control over a new yet-to-be-created terrorist threat integration center that is part of President Bush’s new proposal to create a central data mining center. According to Mark, “The center will play the lead role in overseeing shared databases, and for maintaining an up-to-date database of known and suspected terrorists that will be accessible to federal and non-federal officials and entities.”
DAN VERTON of computer world wrote a similar article titled “Bush seeks terror warning integration center” in which he describes past Data mining system used by the Army at Fort Belvoir, VA that was able to produce an entire profile on Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization. What if some one could hit a few key strokes and have your entire life history at thier finger tips? How poweful would that type of information make some one? These are the questions every private american citizen should be asking themselves if they wish to keep their private lives private.
Jason Miller of Post Newsweek Tech Media wrote yet another article titled “Bush touts center to support data sharing” in his article Miller paraphrases from Michael Scardaville who is a policy analyst for homeland security at the Heritage Foundation. According to Miller, Scardaville commented, “work being done by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is a possible solution to the data sharing problem.” Which of course we all know as Total Information Awareness or T.I.A
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