"EPIC - TIA"
- Latest News: EPIC has urged for screening of the Department of Homeland Security's proposed Office of Screening Coordination and Operation because it would oversee vast databases of digital fingerprints and photographs, eye scans and personal information from American citizens and legal foreign visitors - but this office does not propose how it is going to promote privacy rights
- In 2002, DARPA founded TIA - intended to detect terrorists through analyzing tons of information
- Worked through projects such as Project Genoa and the Human ID at a Distance Program - main goal of all its projects: to build a "virtual, centralized, grand database"
- 2003 - Congress eliminated the funding for the controversial project
"No Place to Hide"
(The link on courseweb gave me an error that it could not find the page - so here are two websites that I used instead: A review of the book, http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=33&pid=503479 and a site about information dealing with the book, http://www.noplacetohide.net/ )
From the book review...
- A book written by Robert O'Harrow Jr.
- Gives details of how private data and technology companies and the government are creating an industrial complex or a national intelligence infrastructure.
- Explains how the government depends on a large reservoir of information about aspects of everyone lives to promote homeland security and fight terrorists
- The example of the grocery discount card is unsettling
- The book explores the impact of this new security system on our privacy, autonomy, liberties, and traditions
From the "No Place to Hide" Site
- Gives all kinds of updates on new information pertaining to what No Place to Hide brings out - privacy with information issues
- Gives a list of people who are/were responsible for such dramatic acts that question our liberties - such as the Patriot Act
- Allows you to read the final chapter - chapter 10 of No Place to Hide
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