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What does TIA stand for?

Terrorism Information Awareness (US DARPA program; formerly Total Information Awareness)


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The privacy projects were small parts of the Pentagon's Terrorism Information Awareness research.
The idea of government agencies collecting vast amounts of information from citizens and sharing it with other government agencies has become a controversial one; witness the hue and cry about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) Terrorism Information Awareness Program, which proposed to mine intelligence and consumer data in a quest to prevent terrorism.
or to any other department, agency, or element of the federal government, may be obligated or expended on research and development on the Terrorism Information Awareness program," the bill stated.
This week, House-Senate conferees will debate a Senate-passed provision to halt spending on his Terrorism Information Awareness project, which was designed to search the commercial transactions and personal records of millions of Americans in an attempt to detect by computer the telltale patterns of activity by would-be terrorists.
In particular, the senator cautioned against potential abuses of power laid out for law enforcement and intelligence agencies by the USA Patriot Act, the Terrorism Information Awareness program and the Computer Assisted Passenger Profiling System.
The Total Information Awareness program under development by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been renamed the Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) program.
The Pentagon's controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program also sought to use personal data in new ways but on a far larger scale.
Why did the Pentagon recently change the name of its anti-terror surveillance system from Total Information Awareness to the Terrorism Information Awareness ?

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