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	Information Awareness Office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense, in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying information technology to counter transnational threats to national security.
		The TIA program itself was the "systems-level" program of the IAO that intended to integrate information technologies into a prototype system to provide tools to better detect, classify, and identify potential foreign terrorists with the goal to increase the probability that authorized agencies of the United States could preempt adverse actions.
		Notwithstanding the defunding of TIA and the closing of the IAO, several TIA projects continued to be funded under the classified annexes to the Defense and the Intelligence appropriation bills in 2003 and subsequently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Total_Information_Awareness (2201 words)

	Open Government Information Awareness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Open Government Information Awareness was a project at MIT to provide US citizens with software tools to construct a database on the US government.
		To empower citizens by providing a single, comprehensive, easy-to-use repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of the United States of America.
		In the United States, there is a widening gap between a citizen's ability to monitor his or her government and the government's ability to monitor a citizen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Government_Information_Awareness (462 words)

	EPIC Terrorism (Total) Information Awareness Page
		Congress has eliminated funding for the controversial Total Information Awareness (TIA) project and closed the Pentagon's Information Awareness Office, the entity that housed TIA and was formerly headed by Adm. John Poindexter.
		He defends the controversial Total Information Awareness program and cites the Privacy with Security (pdf) study as an example of his office's efforts to "protect the privacy of innocent people." That study was first released as a result of an FOIA lawsuit filed by EPIC.
		A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit [PDF] pursued by EPIC has led to the disclosure of 180 pages detailing the projects that were funded and rejected by the Office of Information Awareness, headed by John Poindexter.
	www.epic.org /privacy/profiling/tia (3515 words)

	Finding the Face of Terror in Data
		But it is a myth that the Information Awareness Office intends to develop some kind of system to spy on Americans.
		The terrorism information program is not and never has been intended for use in surveillance against Americans.
		Terrorism Information Awareness is a uniquely promising program that can help avoid terrorist attacks against American assets at home and abroad.
	foi.missouri.edu /terrorintelligence/findingface.html (1163 words)

	Proposals for Implementing the Terrorism Information Awareness System
		By contrast, when the information is being collected from third-party data holders (such as telephone records or credit-card information) the government inquiry must proceed by way of subpoena--a method that affords the data holder the opportunity to object to production of the data if it is unduly burdensome or if the government seeks irrelevant information.
		In other words, once a pattern of potential terror activity is identified, the user of a KD pattern search ought to be obliged to present that information to a court--in effect, the equivalent of the court currently used to implement the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA), if not that court itself.
		The information accessed remains law enforcement or intelligence information insofar as it resides in place in the original data base where it was first collected and stored, but it take on a new character as KD information when combined through the operation of KD technology and used in a domestic context.
	www.heritage.org /Research/HomelandDefense/lm8.cfm (12914 words)

	Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA)
		In response to the attack of September 11, 2001, DARPA established the Information Awareness Office [IAO] in January 2002, headed by Dr. John Poindexter.
		The relevant information extracted from this data must be made available in large-scale repositories with enhanced semantic content for easy analysis to accomplish this task.
		The TIA program attempted to integrate information technologies into a prototype that could determine the feasibility of searching vast quantities of data as well as determines links or patterns in the data that are indicative of terrorist activities.
	www.globalsecurity.org /security/systems/tia.htm (1918 words)

	"Privacy Appliance" Seeks To Rein In Government Snooping - News by InformationWeek
		Still, she admits that she is not fully aware of all TIA's details and the government's plans.
		TIA has been widely criticized since it was first proposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
		TIA's supporters maintain that the terrorist plot could have been detected if only the government had access to enough information and synthesized it properly.
	www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12800440 (1110 words)

	Total Information Awareness - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The IAO's stated mission is to gather as much information as possible about everyone in a centralized location for easy perusal by the United States government, including Internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data.
		In essence, the goal of the IAO is to be able to recreate a life history of thoughts and movements for any individual on the planet on demand, which the Bush administration deems necessary to counter the threat of terrorism.
		Also at issue is the integrity of Poindexter as head of the IAO, as he was convicted on five felony charges for lying to the Congress and deliberately altering and destroying documents pertaining to the Iran-Contra Affair.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Total_Information_Awareness (2167 words)

	What is Total Information Awareness? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: TIA
		- Total Information Awareness (TIA) is the name of a massive U.S. data mining project focused on scanning travel, financial and other data from public and private sources with the goal of detecting and preventing transnational threats to national security.
		TIA has also been called Terrorism Information Awareness.
		TIA initiatives included a massive counter-terrorism database and advanced methods for data collection, processing and analysis.
	searchsecurity.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci874056,00.html (363 words)

	Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) Watch
		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.
		The TIA program strategy is to integrate technologies developed by DARPA (and elsewhere as appropriate) into a series of increasingly powerful prototype systems that can be stress-tested in operationally relevant environments, using real-time feedback to refine concepts of operation and performance requirements down to the component level.
		Accordingly, the TIA program will work in close collaboration with one or more U.S. intelligence agencies that will provide operational guidance and technology evaluation, and act as TIA system transition partners.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/tia/total-information-awareness.htm (354 words)

	FCW.com - TIA report addresses privacy concerns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) project, formerly Total Information Awareness, was renamed after privacy groups raised concerns the system would gather sensitive information and track American citizens.
		TIA is a research project that would integrate search tools, such as data search, translation and pattern recognition, into a network aimed at analyzing possible terrorist activity.
		Information technology could help save Medicaid, but complexity and a lack of standard practices continue to hobble the program.
	www.fcw.com /fcw/articles/2003/0519/web-darpa-05-20-03.asp (505 words)

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		The TIA program is essentially a research and development program with the goal of better accumulating and managing information on potential security threats.
		So TIA was developed in the hopes that information can be better used in the future to avoid such catastrophic events as the World Trade Center attack.
		TIA pulled the logo within a matter of days and the name change was also made in a PR effort to change public opinion of the project.
	www.econtentmag.com /Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=5550 (1012 words)

	BushBlog.com: \"Total Information Awarness\" Revisited
		Both the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project and the ARDA research project seek to detect hidden patterns of activity in vast collections of digital data.
		The kinds of information engines envisioned here are potentially devastating mechanisms of social control, down to the most microscopic level--down to you and me. (Already we have learned that the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center is being used to surveill and report on anti-war protesters.) But that's not the only agenda in play.
		All of this--and more--would combine with information gleaned from a variety of sources: a GPS transmitter to keep tabs on where that person went, audio-visual sensors to capture what he or she sees or says, and biomedical monitors to keep track of the individual's health.
	www.refuseandresist.org /police_state/art.php?aid=814 (941 words)

	Wired News: Pentagon Spy Office to Close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program was conceived by retired Adm. John Poindexter and was run by the Information Awareness Office that he headed inside the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
		In addition to the data-scanning project, other TIA efforts that cannot be pursued by Darpa under the conferees' agreement include projects to identify people at a distance by using radar or video images of their gait or facial characteristics.
		The conference wrote that four, noncontroversial projects in TIA could continue at Darpa: two to develop software for wargaming future terrorist attacks and the response to them, a project to speed detection of bioterror attacks and one to develop software to automatically translate foreign documents and broadcasts.
	www.wired.com /news/privacy/0,1848,60588,00.html (929 words)

	Wired News: Funding for TIA All But Dead
		The controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic spies: death by legislation.
		TIA is the brainchild of John Poindexter, a key figure from the Iran-Contra scandal, who now heads the research effort at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
		Wyden, a prominent critic of the program, inserted a similar limitation on TIA in a bill passed in February.
	wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html (727 words)

	FloridaDisaster.org - Terrorism
		Develop your Family Disaster Plan to include rally points and have a third party as a common contact.
		Terrorism does not mean you have to change your life.
		In a disaster our best untapped resource is you and me. You can become a part of a Community Emergency Response Team.
	www.floridadisaster.org /bpr/EMTOOLS/Severe/terrorism.htm (636 words)

	William Webb & Eli Lehrer on Terrorism Information Awareness on NRO
		Although some of the Information Awareness Office's programs will continue in other divisions of DARPA, the Senate's decision greatly increases the chances that the United States will fall victim to another major terrorist attack.
		TIA, moreover, would serve more as a toolbox than as a unified system; even DARPA itself admitted that the program aimed to help human analysts because it was "doubtful that an automated system can identify terrorists." (Click here for a complete account of what TIA would have done.)
		Indeed, the tools TIA provides would have proved vital in the war on terror because, as practitioners of fourth-generation warfare, terrorists do not stand up and fight fairly.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/webb-lehrer200310150826.asp (924 words)

	Senate votes to end terrorism Information Awareness project Information Management Journal - Find Articles
		By any name, the Pentagon's proposed terrorism surveillance program - Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA), formerly known as Total Information Awareness - has raised privacy concerns in the United States and around the world.
		In a military spending bill it recently passed unanimously, the U.S. Senate forbade the Defense Department from spending any portion of its $369 billion budget on the TIA program, despite a request from the Bush administration to keep development efforts intact.
		The TIA plan, which was being developed and tested under the supervision of retired admiral John Poindexter, would have developed computer software that can scan vast public and private databases of commercial transactions and personal data around the world to provide advance warning of terrorist attacks.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3937/is_200309/ai_n9291452 (356 words)

	ALA \| Intellectual Freedom Issues
		It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.
		USA PATRIOT Act information for libraries was prepared by the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom and reviewed by legal counsel.
		USA PATRIOT Act: If you or your library are served with a warrant issued under this law, and wish the advice of legal counsel but do not have an attorney, you can still obtain assistance from the Freedom to Read Foundation’s legal counsel.
	ala.org /Template.cfm?Section=ifissues&Template=/ContentManagement/... (1257 words)

	The Practical Nomad
		The privacy of personal information has come to be recognized around the world as a fundamental right, and more and more countries have incorporated data privacy rights in their laws.
		Further Congressional hearings and debate on Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA, originally called "Total Information Awareness", but renamed to make it sound less ominous) are expected now that DARPA's report to Congress under the Wyden TIA Amendment of 20 May 2003 has been delivered.
		A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by EPIC seeking information about the relationship between CAPPS-II, TIA, and the Pentagon was filed in June 2003 in Federal District Court in Washington, DC.
	hasbrouck.org /articles/travelprivacy.html (15510 words)

	www.GovExec.com - Congress funds Defense, kills Terrorism Information Awareness (9/25/03)
		The appropriations bill eliminates the Information Awareness Office under which TIA was being developed, but transfers certain technologies deemed non-controversial to other places within DARPA.
		William Parrish, Homeland Security acting assistant secretary for information analysis, said he would continue to stress improving intelligence before making a higher priority of sharing information with states and localities, despite those governments' daily calls for more information.
		But he advocated the development of technology such as the TIA project that would allow law enforcement to sort through large amounts of data to find terrorist activity.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0903/092503td1.htm (511 words)

	John Poindexter to Head New Domestic Espionage Office: Is The Government Monitoring Our Every Communication Already?
		The Information Awareness Office is a component of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which some may recognize as the Agency that developed the government network backbone that became the Internet.
		Long suspected, the existence and capabilities of the Echelon system was publicly confirmed in a 1997 report issued by the European Parliament's committee on civil rights.
		The only way for the Information Awareness Office to achieve its goal of total information awareness is to deploy Echelon technology to comprehensively intercept all domestic voice, Internet, fax, cellular and other communication.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/PoindyEar.html (911 words)

	Total / "Terrorism" Information Awareness Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Conceptually, I decided to create a personal TIA program to track my own electronic movements, scanning in what paper receipts I kept, and looking back through my own credit history to map out and to document every single electronically-recorded transaction I've made.
		The fact of the matter is, there's a huge trail of information available about each and every one of us.
		When the government tells you not to be worried about their information-gathering capabilities, take their word with a tablespoon of salt.
	vilimpoc.org /research/datavis-tia (237 words)

	Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) Terminated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The conferees are concerned about the activities of the Information Awareness Office and direct that the Office be terminated immediately.
		The only research projects previously under the jurisdiction of the Information Awareness Office that may continue under DARPA are: Bio-Event Advanced Leading Indicator Recognition Technology, Rapid Analytic Wargaming, Wargaming the Asymmetric Environment, and Automated Speech and Text Exploitation in Multiple Languages (including Babylon and Symphony).
		The conferees find these programs are not components of TIA for the purposes of section 8131.
	www.fas.org /sgp/congress/2003/tia.html (212 words)

	[INFOCON] 'Terrorism Information Awareness' (TIA) Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		'Terrorism Information Awareness' (TIA) Program formerly known as 'Total Information Awareness' ************************************************************ Program Objective: 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.
		Program Strategy: The TIA program strategy is to integrate technologies developed by DARPA (and elsewhere as appropriate) into a series of increasingly powerful prototype systems that can be stress-tested in operationally relevant environments, using real-time feedback to refine concepts of operation and performance requirements down to the component level.
	www.iwar.org.uk /pipermail/infocon/2003-May/000209.html (212 words)

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