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TIA, the undead.(Total Information Awareness, an antiterrorism measure)(Brief article)

The New American

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"Some antiterror efforts die--others just change names," observed the February 9 Christian Science Monitor. Among them is the Total Information Awareness (TIA) initiative, which was discontinued amid concerns that its data-mining programs would be tantamount to strip mining privacy from the American public.

However, TIA seems to have been reincarnated as "a little-known system called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE)," reports the Monitor. This data-mining--or "dataveillance"--program can "collect a vast array of corporate and online information--from financial records to CNN news stories--and cross-reference it against US intelligence and law-enforcement records."

"The system would then store it as 'entities'--linked data about people, places, things, organizations, and events," according to a Department of Homeland Security report cited by the Monitor. That information would be shared ...

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