Via the excellent BNA email alerts, it seems that the Total Information Awareness system is being re-named the Terrorist Information Awareness system in an effort to appease privacy worries. The Washington Post reports that, in the report DARPA was ordered to present to Congress, “the name changed, (but) the description of the program being developed remained essentially the same.” I’m glad the DoD take Congressional oversight so seriously…
The story is also being run by Wired ,and EFF have produced a response.
On reading the WP piece, I was instantly reminded of British Nuclear Fuel’s response to a disastrous fire in a nuclear reprocessing plant on the Irish Sea in 1957. They simply changed its name to Sellafield, and it has been discharging radioactive material into the Irish Sea, and continuing with its lousy safety record ever since. Which serves to remind that when the packaging is changed, what’s in the box is pretty stinky stuff indeed.
Posted by Maria at May 21, 2003 10:27 AM | TrackBackVery interesting post
Posted by: Victor at October 21, 2003 06:52 AM