Q&A on the Pentagon's "Total Information Awareness" ProgramWhat is the Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program? TIA may be the closest thing to a true "Big Brother" program that has ever been ...

Since the Pentagon's ""Total Information Awareness"" entered the news recently, the Pentagon, the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and others have begun claiming that the furor over the ...

In setting up an action/thriller movie, let’s picture mass biometric and CCTV surveillance and tracking technology that is stored in a massive computer database, holding personal information of every ...

WASHINGTON--The U.S. Defense Department has awarded millions of dollars to more than two-dozen research projects that involve a controversial data-mining project aimed at compiling electronic dossiers ...

Total Information Awareness would be equipped with built-in privacy safeguards, Aldridge said, and subjected to the same legal protections that law-enforcement agencies are required to follow. Critics ...

The Department of Homeland Security's privacy board chose as its chairman Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer best known in technology circles for his defense of the Pentagon's Total Information ...

Ever since allowing the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness project to go down the tubes in 2003, the administration has failed to explain the potential of data mining, even as it secretly ...