CyberCrime: Total Info Awareness

• DARPA Total Terrorism Information Awareness

"The Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) program is a FY03 new-start program. The goal of the Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) program is to revolutionize the ability of the United States to detect, classify and identify foreign terrorists - and decipher their plans - and thereby enable the U.S. to take timely action to successfully preempt and defeat terrorist acts. To that end, the TIA program objective is to create a counter-terrorism information system that: (1) increases information coverage by an order of magnitude, and affords easy future scaling; (2) provides focused warnings within an hour after a triggering event occurs or an evidence threshold is passed; (3) can automatically queue analysts based on partial pattern matches and has patterns that cover 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist attacks; and, (4) supports collaboration, analytical reasoning and information sharing so that analysts can hypothesize, test and propose theories and mitigating strategies about possible futures, so decision-makers can effectively evaluate the impact of current or future policies and prospective courses of action."

--DARPA's TIA Report to Congress (May 20, 2003)

• Statement Of Barry Steinhardt, Director, Technology And Liberty Program, American Civil Liberties Union, On Government Data Mining, Before The Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations And The Census Subcommittee Of The House Of Representatives Committee On Government Reform (May 20, 2003)

Papers

• TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS AND BEYOND How Data Mining Programs are Continuing Despite Congress's Vote to De-fund the Total Information Awareness Program, Shannon R. Anderson Haywood Burns Fellow, Bill of Rights Defense Committe

  NEWS

• Canadian police back snooping tax, Register 8/18/2004
• Big Business Becoming Big Brother, Wired 8/9/2004
• House vote stymies TIA spy plan, CNET 9/26/03
• Senate moves to kill terrorism surveillance program, CNN 7/16/03
• Ta-ta TIA?, USA Today 7/16/03
• Funding for TIA All But Dead, Wired 7/14/03
• Pentagon Defends Data Search Plan, Wired 5/23/03
• U.S. promises limits on computer dragnet, CNET 5/21/03
• Feds Doing More Secret Searches, Wired 5/9/03
• Internet wiretaps are tested, USA Today 5/2/03
• DARPA funds TIA privacy study, FCW 4/30/03
• TIA proponents defend domestic spy plan, CNET 4/4/03
• Pentagon spy database funding revealed, CNET 2/28/03
• Bush proposes antiterror database plan, CNET 1/29/03
• Senate Kills Data Mining Funding, Internet News 1/24/03
• Senate Blocks Privacy Project, NYT 1/24/03
• Senate limits Pentagon 'snooping' plan, CNET 1/24/03