Son of TIA Will Mine Asian Data

[Ian David]

By Sharon Weinberger| Also by this reporter
12:00 PM Mar, 22, 2007

Nearly four years after Congress pulled the plug on what critics assailed as an Orwellian scheme to spy on private citizens, Singapore is set to launch an even more ambitious incarnation of the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness program -- an effort to collect and mine data across all government agencies in the hopes of pinpointing threats to national security.

The Singapore prototype of the system -- dubbed Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning, or RAHS -- was rolled out early this week at a conference in the Southeast Asia city-state. Retired U.S. Adm. John Poindexter, the architect of the original Pentagon program, traveled to Singapore to deliver a speech at the unveiling, while backers have already begun quietly touting the system to U.S. intelligence officials.

In 2003, plans for Total Information Awareness, or TIA, sparked outrage among privacy advocates. TIA was one of several programs run out of the Information Awareness Office at Darpa, the Pentagon's advanced research projects agency. Fueling public indignation was news that Poindexter, President Reagan's national security adviser and a key figure in the '80s Iran-Contra scandal, was in charge of the office.

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While different in design from TIA, the RAHS system shares some intellectual roots with the doomed Darpa effort. The two principal consultants for RAHS are John Peterson, of the Virginia-based Arlington Institute, and Dave Snowden, who was previously supported by Poindexter's office within Darpa, and is now the chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge, a Singapore-based company.

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[ShortnFiery]

1. OMG these people are evil incarnate! Especially Poindexter (and Cheney!)

:scared: :nuke: :scared:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. I thought this was about our, DU's TIA. What happened to him,

anyway?

[tom_paine]

3. If you think Lil'Boots Bushler and His Loyal Bushies gave up on Total Information Awareness

Then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. It's hardly been driven on.

:rofl:

"doomed DARPA effort", my ass!