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US government database spy site fading away

...terrorists. First, biographical information about the TIA project leaders, including retired Admiral John Poindexter, disappeared from the Defense Department's site last month. A mirror... Read more

23 December, 2002 by Declan McCullagh
Photos: Emails they wish they'd never sent

Photos: Emails they wish they'd never sent

...rogues is that when the scandal broke in November 1986, he and John Poindexter began deleting more than 5,000 email messages from White House... Read more

15 December, 2006 by ZDNet UK

When national security becomes secrecy

...the Web. First, biographical information about TIA project leaders, including retired Admiral John Poindexter, disappeared. Then the TIA site shrank even more, with the slogan... Read more

3 November, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Americans reject antiterrorism database

...Pentagon efforts to defend it against mounting public and congressional criticism. Admiral John Poindexter, who ran the US Department of Defense's Information Awareness Office... Read more

26 September, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...the futures market in acts of terrorism, as planned by ex-Admiral John Poindexter. Although impeccable from a theoretical point of view as a mechanism... Read more

1 August, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Google's cache causes copyright concern

...privacy expert Richard Smith copied Web pages detailing the backgrounds of Dr. John Poindexter, head of the Pentagon's Information Awareness Office (IAO), and other... Read more

10 July, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Gates: Orwell was wrong about Big Brother

The Microsoft chairman says his technology will make the US more secure without infringing on personal privacy Read more

26 June, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Pentagon data-mining raises eyebrows

...TIA project became public in early 2002 when President Bush chose Admiral John Poindexter, who had been embroiled in the Iran-Contra scandal, to run... Read more

25 June, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Pentagon database to spy on Americans

...to government documents brought to light by a privacy group on Thursday. John Poindexter, who oversees the agency's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, approved... Read more

28 February, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Spy chips: Who's watching you?

...Applied Digital Systems would like to do. Nor am I talking about John Poindexter's creepy Total Information Awareness spy-veillance system, which I wrote... Read more

14 January, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Homeland Security bill becomes US law

...Electronic Privacy Information Center. Rotenberg called for the ouster of former admiral John Poindexter, who runs DARPA's Total Information Awareness (TIA) programme, saying Poindexter... Read more

26 November, 2002 by Declan McCullagh
Unreal Tournament 2003 - Poindexter skin

Unreal Tournament 2003 - Poindexter skin

This is the Poindexter skin for UT2003. It Is modeled after Admiral John Poindexter Read more

30 October, 2003

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...the futures market in acts of terrorism, as planned by ex-Admiral John Poindexter. Although impeccable from a theoretical point of view as a mechanism... Read more

1 August, 2003

Gates v Orwell: Security needn?t mean a Big Brother state

"This technology can make our country more secure and prevent the nightmare vision of George Orwell at the same time" Read more

26 June, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Bush signs Homeland Security bill

...Electronic Privacy Information Center. Rotenberg called for the ouster of former admiral John Poindexter, who runs DARPA's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, saying Poindexter... Read more

26 November, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

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