October 10, 2003

Terrorism Information Awareness Program Shut Down

Inside DARPA Admiral John Poindexter ran the Information Awareness Office and was building a vast computerized terrorism surveillance system. This system included some pretty kewl survillance software, and was starting to be known as the watch dog of the Americian people, scanning personal records and building profiles of suspected terrorist-like activities.

Well, Wired reports that the project has been cancelled. Some software will be picked up by other government agencies (ie: read National Foreign Intelligence Program from using processing, analysis and collaboration tools for counterterrorism foreign-intelligence purposes.)

Now Americians can feel free to buy the Anarchists Handbook online or check our Nuclear Fusion For Dummies without being targetted in Darpa. You'll just be flagged in the FBI database. Oh wait, you weren't supposed to know that.

Posted by SilverStr at October 10, 2003 10:42 AM | TrackBack