At 03:09 PM 05/21/2003 -0400, stuart wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/international/worldspecial/21PRIV.html?tnt...
The Total Information Awareness Program has been dressed in drag, now it is the Terrorist Information Awareness Program.
Best line: "Saying they are worried about Americans' privacy, Pentagon officials announced in a report today that they were changing the name of a projected system to mine databases for information to help catch terrorists to Terrorist Information Awareness from Total Information Awareness."
They're worried about Americans' privacy, so they change the name? How thoughtful of them, I feel better already.
No, no, you're misunderstanding it. They're renaming it because anybody they want to watch is a terrorist. That's not just the 13 million people on the FBI's Watch List, it's the 250 million suspicious characters they haven't got evidence on yet.