TIA Alive And Well

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Simon Higgs <simon () higgs com>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 02:38:40 -0800
To: dave () farber net
Subject: TIA Alive And Well

Dave,

It looks like TIA is full-steam ahead. A press release has been posted on
DefenseLink:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2003/b02072003_bt060-03.html

***QUOTE***

"The Department of Defense will establish two boards to provide oversight
of the Total Information Awareness Project, the program designed to develop
tools to track terrorists. The two boards, an internal oversight board and
an outside advisory committee, will work with the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), as it continues its research."

[..]

Members of the outside advisory board are:

Newton Minow (chairman), director of the Annenberg Washington Program and
the Annenberg Professor of Communications Law and Policy at Northwestern
University
Floyd Abrams, renowned civil rights attorney
Zoe Baird, president Markle Foundation
Griffin Bell, former U.S. Attorney General and Court of Appeals judge
Gerhard Casper, president emeritus for Stanford University and Professor of
Law
William T. Coleman, former chairman and CEO of BEA and now Chief Customer
Advocate
Lloyd Cutler, former White House Counsel

[..]

"While the research to date is promising, TIA is still only a concept."

"TIA does not plan to create a gigantic database. Further, TIA has not ever
collected or gathered and is not now collecting or gathering any
intelligence information. This is and will continue to be the
responsibility of the US foreign intelligence/counterintelligence agencies,
which operate under various legal and policy restrictions with
congressional oversight. This technology development program in no way
alters the authority or responsibility of the intelligence community.
Furthermore, TIA has never collected, and has no plan or intent to collect
privately held consumer data on U.S. citizens. It is a research program
designed to catch terrorists before they strike."

***UNQUOTE***



Best Regards,

Simon

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