The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that COULD create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe — including the United States.
In order to deploy such a system, known as Total Information Awareness,new legislation would be needed, some of which has been proposed by the Bush administration in the Homeland Security Act that is now before Congress.
The new system will rely on a set of computer-based pattern recognition techniques known as "data mining," a set of statistical techniques used by scientists as well as by marketers searching for potential customers.
The system would permit a team of intelligence analysts to gather and view information from databases, pursue links between individuals and groups, respond to automatic alerts, and share information efficiently, all from their individual computers.
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what is specific?
this is all i can see in that article that somewhat describes what they want to do.
doesnt Visa do this same thing?
i dont see specific details and descriptions, nor to i see specific arguements against it. it seems to me to be a lot of the same paranoia and rhetoric... which makes good headlines and lousy debates.
basically there is a proposal and a project and a prototype being built by the military to run on "test data". the House and Senate must approve of it to make it happen. Not Bush. Not John Ashcroft. That means that the entire government of the United States of America is at work here... not just a few zealots who want to steal your brain.
Last edited by -= JR =- at Dec 16 2002, 01:49 PM
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