gregh 2006-10-31 10:03 homeland_security information_privacy Law personal_information privacy real_id
Of course Total Information Awareness never died.
It helps connect the dots, as I've previously suggested:
Certainly, there's probably good reason to believe that TIA never died. There's also very good reason to believe that one of the great benefits of forcing the electronic opening of all state driver databases is that it would benefit a TIA-like system.
Why else would the federal government force the states to electronically open their databases to all other states, when the states hadn't even been asking for that? Well, of course. It makes it easier for the federal government to collect the information to stuff their databases. Unfortunately, it also leaves everyone else's information more prone to theft. Government agencies haven't exactly shown themselves to be adept at protecting personal information.
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Terrorist Profiling, Version 2.0 (10/20/2006):
The government's top intelligence agency is building a computerized system to search very large stores of information for patterns of activity that look like terrorist planning. The system, which is run by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is in the early research phases and is being tested, in part, with government intelligence that may contain information on U.S. citizens and other people inside the country.
It encompasses existing profiling and detection systems, including those that create 'suspicion scores' for suspected terrorists by analyzing very large databases of government intelligence, as well as records of individuals' private communications, financial transactions, and other everyday activities.
(Via Schneier on Security.)
