Nearly four years after Congress pulled the plug on what critics assailed as an Orwellian scheme to spy on private citizens, Singapore is set to launch an even more ambitious incarnation of the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness program -- an effort to collect and mine data across all government agencies in the hopes of pinpointing threats to national security. The system -- dubbed Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning, or RAHS -- was rolled out early this week. Retired U.S. Adm. John Poindexter, the architect of the original Pentagon program, traveled to Singapore to deliver a speech at the unveiling. In 2003, plans for Total Information Awareness, or TIA, sparked outrage among privacy advocates. Poindexter, President Reagan's national security adviser and a key figure in the '80s Iran-Contra scandal, was in charge of the office. Facing an avalanche of bad publicity, Poindexter resigned in August 2003. Congress pulled funding for the program, and TIA and related programs were either terminated or moved to other agencies.
submitted by Shaun A. Saunders
submitted by Shaun A. Saunders
2 comments:
Son of TIA, or father of Mallcity 14's BCC (Bureau of Consumer Confidence), who track everything, and know everything about you?
I think George Orwell is getting restless in his grave...
I am willing to bet that Orwell dont dare to move in his grave. Stuff like this your right...BCC is not far behind.
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