Posted on 05/22/2003 10:35:39 AM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A program called Terrorism Information Awareness, which falls under the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is in the forefront of government efforts to identify foreign terrorists using computer technology.
This is serious business and, given the huge reach of the effort to mine data across society, Americans on both the right and left have become alarmed about the potential abuse of civil liberties.
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ROTFLMAO!
As long as we're making bets...
I bet over time this technology is integrated into the red light camera networks that have set the precedent for public electronic surveillance, eventually emulating or even surpassing the surveillance saturated environment of London or even our own Ybor City of Florida.
I also bet they'll use this and other biometric devices such as facial recognition to track, log and database the comings and goings of the general public at large, completely lacking even the slightest bit of individualized suspicion. It will be part of the TIA abomination.
And it's a safe bet while terrorists are the boogyman used to scare people into accepting this quasi-stalker technology, it will eventually turn out that 99.9% of the uses of this device have nothing to do with terrorism and instead are focused on common everyday crimes.
And my final bet is that in the hell on Earth police state we're headed for, the following will be as common as street lights are today:
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