Car* RK,
da Indymedia (e Reuter) la notizia della (momentanea) sospensione
di fondi al Total Information Awareness Program:
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=47829&group=webcast
Qui di seguito, dalla pagina di EPIC, un'update sul dibattito
intorno al TIA.
un abbraccio,
stefania
http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
Senate Limits
Total Information Awareness System. Senators led by Ron Wyden
(D-OR) accepted
Amendment 59
to a spending
bill that will
suspend the development of the Total Information Awareness (TIA)
system. Funding for development of TIA will end 60 days after the
passage of the bill unless the intelligence community submits a
detailed report to Congress on the privacy and civil liberties
implications of the system. The amendment further requires
Congressional authorization before TIA is deployed by any agency.
However, exceptions in the amendment allow President Bush to approve
continued funding for TIA, and the use of TIA for military operations
outside the United States. (Jan. 24)
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Computer Scientists Criticize TIA. The US Association
for Computing Machinery, a group of computer scientists and
information technology professionals, wrote to the Senate Armed Services committee
about TIA. The letter details the privacy and security risks inherent
in the Total Information Awareness architecture and questions the
technical feasibility of the vision. (Jan. 23)
*
New DoD-FBI links exposed. In a
preliminary
response to
Senator Grassley's (R-IA) letter seeking additional information about
TIA, the Defense Department acknowledged that it was possibly
developing a MOU (memorandum of understanding) with the FBI to
experiment with TIA technology. Senator Grassley then wrote to Attorney General Ashcroft
seeking additional information about potential links between the FBI
and TIA. Senator Grassley has also introduced SA53, an amendment that limits the
funding of TIA for domestic intelligence purposes, into the
appropriations bill. (Jan. 21)
* Senator Feingold introduces
Data-mining Moratorium Act. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI)
introduced S.
188, the
Data-mining Moratorium Act, which would limit the use of data mining
technology by the Defense department and by the new Department of
Homeland Security without Congressional approval and appropriate civil
liberties protections. (Jan. 16)
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Senator Harkin calls for hearings on TIA. Senator Tom
Harkin (D-IA) sent a letter to Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI), requesting that
hearings be held on TIA and Admiral Poindexter's role in developing
the project. He called on Poindexter to testify before Congress. (Jan.
13)
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