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Total Information Awareness And Beyond: The Dangers Of Using Data Mining Technology To Prevent Terrorism
White Papers The progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Pentagon Database To Spy On Americans
News John Poindexter, who oversees the agency's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, approved 26 of them last autumn, including grants to the University of Southern California, the Palo Alto Research Centre, and defence contractor Science...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
Conservatives Defend Pentagon Surveillance Plan
News The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being developed by the US Defense Department, is an example of using the latest technology to guard against future terrorist attacks, representatives of two conservative groups said during a debate at...
[April 3, 2003, 8:29]
US Government Database Spy Site Fading Away
News As controversy grows over the Defense Department's shadowy Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, the project's virtual presence is steadily decreasing. A spokeswoman for the Information Awareness Office, which runs the TIA project at the...
[December 23, 2002, 8:35]
Building The Human Firewall
White Papers A company can implement the best security technology in the world, but if its people aren’t part of the total security solution, the organization’s information is still dangerously vulnerable. Developing a comprehensive security solution includes...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Asset Management: Finding Success Where Others Have Failed
White Papers Some attend industry events, such as the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers conference and the Gartner IT and Software Asset Management Summit. Gartner's advice, while always sound, has cycled over the years among...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Company Secures £9m Outsourced Communications Contract For Fire Service
White Papers The emergency services rely on Information, Communication and Technology (ICT). In September 2001, the MFCDA awarded Marconi a five-year, £9m contract to provide a total outsourced communications solution, including strategic consultancy.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Americans Reject Antiterrorism Database
News The approval vote is the result of a 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 and congressional criticism.
[September 26, 2003, 9:15]
Pentagon Data-mining Raises Eyebrows
News Senator Ron 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 11 pointed questions about the project's scope, its implications for...
[June 25, 2003, 13:37]
Gates: Orwell Was Wrong About Big Brother
News Without taking a stand on the TIA system, which previously was called Total Information Awareness, Gates applauded increased information sharing between government agencies. The US Department of Justice has drafted a legislative proposal asking for...
[June 26, 2003, 8:10]
US Budgets $1bn For Homeland Security IT
News The group has courted controversy recently with its Total Information Awareness project (renamed Terrorist Information Awareness). That mission, not to mention a billion-dollar budget, should be music to the ears of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and...
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
UK Citizens Shun E-government Services
News The perception is that awareness of e-government services is low amongst centre users, and few people are actively using these types of service," it says "This view is supported by the centres responding to the e-survey, who estimated that just...
[April 5, 2005, 15:55]
Google Denies FBI Interest In Gmail
News Critics immediately criticised EPIC's request as a publicity stunt because the nonprofit likened Google's Web-based email service to the FBI's controversial Carnivore wiretapping utility and the Pentagon's discontinued "Orwellian Total Information...
[April 30, 2004, 11:25]
Safeguards Urged For 'life Events Database'
News In the US, a controversial antiterrorism scheme originally known as Total Information Awareness would have created computerised dossiers on all Americans, but was dumped last month following aggressive lobbying by civil rights groups.
[October 30, 2003, 13:10]
Homeland Security Bill Becomes US Law
News Rotenberg called for the ouster of former admiral John Poindexter, who runs DARPA's Total Information Awareness (TIA) programme, saying Poindexter's past efforts to create similar databases made him unsuitable to head the project.
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
Environment Agency Expands Online Resources
News The Environment Agency has launched a new online map service, aimed at giving people up to date information about flood risks. Flood Map, launched on 7 October 2004 as part of the agency's £30m mapping project, marks the start of an awareness...
[October 7, 2004, 16:40]
Swiss Scale Down E-government Plans
News Switzerland is to scale down its e-government plans, offering only online information rather than transactional services, according to reports on 3 June, 2004. Cantons were opposed to the main portal offering interactive services and wanted to make...
[June 3, 2004, 12:55]
BT: Businesses Falling Short On Data Disposal
News Organisations charged with safeguarding sensitive data are not doing enough to ensure that information is cleansed from hard disks before disposal, according to BT. A study of second-hand disks by BT and universities in the UK, the US and Australia...
[September 24, 2007, 16:34]
CIH Computer Virus Toll Tops 540,000
News The Korean Information and Communication Ministry said anti-virus program developers received reports of infection from about 1,000 private companies, 200 government and public organisations and 300 universities.
[April 28, 1999, 9:34]
Personal Note To Bill Gates
Talkback Total Information Awareness doesn't really bother me per se as long as industry leaders such as yourself actually informed the greater mass that its realization is well on the way. Beyond that, some may think that Total Transparency is probably a...
[November 20, 2007, 6:30]
