The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On

[norml]

The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On
by repost Friday, May. 05, 2006 at 9:26 PM


Technology behind the Pentagon's controversial data-mining project has been acquired by NSA, and is probably in use.

By Mark Williams

In April, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the advocacy organization for citizens' digital rights, filed evidence to support its class-action lawsuit alleging that telecom giant AT&T gave the National Security Agency (NSA), the ultra-secret U.S. agency that's the world's largest espionage organization, unfettered access to Americans' telephone and Internet communications. The lawsuit is one more episode in the public controversy that erupted in December 2005, when the New York Times revealed that, following September 11, President Bush authorized a far-reaching NSA surveillance program that included warrantless electronic eavesdropping on telephone calls and e-mails of individuals within the United States.

Critics charged that the Bush administration had violated both the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens against unwarranted search or seizure, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, which requires eavesdropping warrants to be obtained from a special court of judges empowered for that purpose.

In February 2006, the controversy intensified. Reports emerged that component technologies of the supposedly defunct Total Information Awareness (TIA) project -- established in 2002 by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop advanced information technology to counter terrorists, then terminated by Congress in 2003 because of widespread criticism that it would create "Orwellian" mass surveillance -- had been acquired by the NSA.

Washington's lawmakers ostensibly killed the TIA project in Section 8131 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal 2004. But legislators wrote a classified annex to that document which preserved funding for TIA's component technologies, if they were transferred to other government agencies, say sources who have seen the document, according to reports first published in The National Journal. Congress did stipulate that those technologies should only be used for military or foreign intelligence purposes against non-U.S. citizens. Still, while those component projects' names were changed, their funding remained intact, sometimes under the same contracts.

Thus, two principal components of the overall TIA project have migrated to the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA), which is housed somewhere among the 60-odd buildings of "Crypto City," as NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, MD, is nicknamed. One of the TIA components that ARDA acquired, the Information Awareness Prototype System, was the core architecture that would have integrated all the information extraction, analysis, and dissemination tools developed under TIA. According to The National Journal, it was renamed "Basketball." The other, Genoa II, used information technologies to help analysts and decision makers anticipate and pre-empt terrorist attacks. It was renamed "Topsail."


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[OneBlueSky]

1. is there any end to it? . . . to BushCo turning the country . . .

into their own little totalitarian fiefdom? . . .

and, more significantly, is there anyone who doubts that they will do ANYTHING to remain in power? . . . both through this year's Congressional elections, and in 2008? . . .

and I do mean ANYTHING! . . .

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The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On
SF.Indymedia.org, CA - May 5, 2006
... Reports emerged that component technologies of the supposedly defunct Total Information Awareness (TIA) project -- established in 2002 by the Pentagon's ...

The FCC's battle with universities and libraries over VoIP and ...
Ars Technica, MA - May 5, 2006
... of the various Big Data Mining and Monitoring Operation in the Sky-type programs, like Carnivore and the sundry iterations of Total Information Awareness (TIA ...

net.wars: Computers, Freedom, and Privacy XVI
newswireless.net, UK - May 5, 2006
... advance and on many different fronts on the part of the government in support of the fundamental government idea that total information awareness (no trademark ...

Jewel's new system quite troubling indeed
Northern Star Online, IL - Apr 26, 2006
... information. Or how about the federal government? Ever heard of a little program called Total Information Awareness? While that ...

Intelligence Efforts
Wall Street Journal (subscription), NY - Apr 26, 2006
... at a separate Pentagon unit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, began work on a massive data-capturing program known as Total Information Awareness ...

The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On
MIT Technology Review, MA - Apr 25, 2006
... Reports emerged that component technologies of the supposedly defunct Total Information Awareness (TIA) project -- established in 2002 by the Pentagon's ...

A Data Space for Information Coexistence
Intelligent Enterprise, CA - Apr 24, 2006
Sixty years of computing have created the tantalizing prospect of "360-degree views" and "total information awareness." These notions of knowing everything ...

'Total Information' deputy gets new role
United Press International - Apr 20, 2006
... contractor Aptima, Inc. has hired a key figure from the Pentagon's canceled Total Information Awareness project. Robert Popp was ...

Total cabbie awareness: Eloquence and error in tracking San Fran ...
Village Voice, NY - Apr 17, 2006
... no individual privacy rights were harmed in the making of this project, but their language otherwise flirts racily with fantasies of total information awareness ...

Kilburn: The Hobbesian turn
North Shore Sunday, MA - Apr 14, 2006
... net. Such procedures were outlined publicly in the administration’s aborted "Total Information Awareness" program of 2002. When ...

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