Wednesday, July 17, 2013

U.S. Never Really Ended Creepy “Total Information Awareness” Program

Scientific American Blog

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 Dave Farber, “Grandfather of the Internet,”...When I asked Farber if U.S. citizens need to worry about the U.S. acting like Big Brother, he replied, “Yeah.”
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I thought this program was killed, but government programs are the nearest thing to immortality that we will see on Earth, said Ronald Reagan.  I'm referring to John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program.  Poindexter was involved in Iran-Contra scandal in the eighties.

How do you get rid of such a thing once it gets established?

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