For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The United States Senate, in a rare show of courage in these “if it´s anti-terrorist it must be all right” times, cut off funding Thursday for the Pentagon´s super snoop computer project. By a voice vote, they blocked funding for the Total Information Awareness Project, a giant information gathering system that would have allowed Uncle Sam to track your financial transactions on a daily basis. "This makes it clear that Congress wants to make sure there is no snooping on law-abiding Americans," said Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, who sponsored the measure....
