Total...I mean, Terrorist Information Awareness
The Electronic Freedom Frontier has issued a review of the May 20th Report on Total Information Awareness:
On May 20, 2003, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued its "Report to Congress regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program" (TIA). The Report, mandated by Congress and written to "assess[] the likely impact of the implementation" of TIA on civil liberties and privacy, was an opportunity for DARPA to make a careful review of the components of TIA and require accountability for each of these components. Unfortunately, the Report did not take advantage of this opportunity.The Report makes one thing quite clear: TIA is being tested on "real problems" using "real data" pertaining to U.S. persons, apparently from Defense Department (DoD) intelligence files.
Among the things mentioned:
New Name: TIA now equals Terrorist Information Awareness
New Programs: Rapid Analytical Wargaming; Futures Martkets applied to Prediction; Global Autonomous Language Exploitation; and Next-Generation Facial Recognition among others
Cost of TIA: for FY 2003 to 2005--53,752,000 (includes only the line item for TIA). Budget for all TIA programs--140 million in 2003; 169 million in 2004
The review also indicates that the report still does not address critical privacy and civil liberties issues