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Conservatives defend Pentagon surveillance plan

...to thwart terrorism, two proponents of the plan said on Wednesday. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being developed by the US Defense Department, is... Read more

3 April, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

US government database spy site fading away

...government Web site. As controversy grows over the Defense Department's shadowy Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, the project's virtual presence is steadily decreasing... Read more

23 December, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Pentagon data-mining raises eyebrows

...Wyden, the Oregon Democrat who wrote legislation requiring a report on the Total Information Awareness project, asked on Tuesday for the Pentagon to respond to... Read more

25 June, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

US gov't report: Data mining is ineffective

...a partial repudiation of the Defense Department's data-mining programme called Total Information Awareness, which was limited by Congress in 2003. But the ambition... Read more

8 October, 2008 by Declan McCullagh

Throwing money at technology

...a face out of a crowd." The government's withdrawal of the "Total Information Awareness" project, which would have linked databases to compile composite "signature... Read more

19 October, 2004 by Mike Yamamoto and Robert Lemos

Google denies FBI interest in Gmail

...FBI's controversial Carnivore wiretapping utility and the Pentagon's discontinued "Orwellian Total Information Awareness program." EPIC's request also asked whether Google had discussed... Read more

30 April, 2004 by ZDNet UK

When national security becomes secrecy

...when the military tried to quell public concern about the now-defunct Total Information Awareness project through the simple expedient of deleting files from the... Read more

3 November, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Safeguards urged for 'life events database'

...public funds. In the US, a controversial antiterrorism scheme originally known as Total Information Awareness would have created computerised dossiers on all Americans, but was... Read more

30 October, 2003 by Matthew Broersma

Americans reject antiterrorism database

...year of fierce lobbying by privacy advocates to eliminate TIA (formerly named "Total Information Awareness") and of Pentagon efforts to defend it against mounting public... Read more

26 September, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...business and despite being behind the PR cock-up that was the Total Information Awareness programme. But even he can’t escape three strikes and... Read more

1 August, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Privacy is reborn in the USA

...July 17, the US Senate yanked funding for the Pentagon's creepy Total Information Awareness plan (TIA), which aims to weave together strands of data... Read more

1 August, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

US budgets $1bn for homeland security IT

...development of the Internet. The group has courted controversy recently with its Total Information Awareness project (renamed Terrorist Information Awareness). More recently, Darpa was involved... Read more

1 August, 2003 by Alorie Gilbert

How CIOs can help fight cyberterror

Q&A: A former US intelligence officer explains why cyberterror really is a threat, and what IT departments can do to help Read more

24 July, 2003 by Karen Ann Kidd

Gates: Orwell was wrong about Big Brother

...Without taking a stand on the TIA system, which previously was called Total Information Awareness, Gates applauded increased information sharing between government agencies. He cited... Read more

26 June, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Pentagon database to spy on Americans

...a privacy group on Thursday. John Poindexter, who oversees the agency's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, approved 26 of them last autumn, including grants... Read more

28 February, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

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