U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools [TOTAL INFO AWARENESS STILL UP]

[truthisfreedom]

more lies. lies upon lies upon lies upon deceit.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20040222/ap_on_re_us/terror_privacy_3&printer=1

U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools


Sun Feb 22, 2:27 PM ET


Congress eliminated a Pentagon (news - web sites) office that had been developing this terrorist-tracking technology because of fears it might ensnare innocent Americans.

Still, some projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, congressional, federal and research officials told The Associated Press.

In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers as Poindexter's program.

"The whole congressional action looks like a shell game," said Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks work by U.S. intelligence agencies. "There may be enough of a difference for them to claim TIA was terminated while for all practical purposes the identical work is continuing."
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Expansions of data mining, however, increase "the risk of an innocent person being in the wrong place at the wrong time, of having rented the wrong apartment ... or having a name similar to the name of some bad guy," he said.

[soup]

1. having a name similar to the name

The Miami Herald picked up the article and categorized it into their 'politics' section:

Controversial Terror Research Lives On
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/8017989.htm

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Follow the link provided at the end of the article to the ARDA site:
http://www.ic-arda.org

Click on Upcoming ARDA Calendar of Events!!


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December -

01-05 - Information Exploitation - AQUAINT: 24-Month Workshop
Location: MITRE, McLean, VA


08-09 Resource Enhancement Program (REP) - VACE: Final Challange Workshop
Location: TBD (West Coast)

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??Final Challange Workshop??

Don't know how long it will remain up since it was referring to December 2003.

How comforting. :eyes:

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=379195