"Total Information Awareness" is back, with a new name: "ADVISE"

[file83]

First it was "Total Information Awareness" in 2002 - that got shut down due to privacy concerns.
Then there was its successor, "Terrorism Information Awareness" in 2003 - it too got shut down for the same reasons.

Now, in 2006, they repackaged it in a totally different name:
"ADVISE" (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement).

US plans massive data sweep
Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?

by Mark Clayton

The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity.

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Even congressmen with direct oversight of DHS, who favor data mining, say they don't know enough about the program.

"I am not fully briefed on ADVISE," wrote Rep. Curt Weldon (R) of Pennsylvania, vice chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in an e-mail. "I'll get briefed this week."

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ADVISE "looks very much like TIA," Mr. Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes in an e-mail. "There's the same emphasis on broad collection and pattern analysis."

But Mr. Sand, the DHS official, emphasizes that privacy protection would be built-in. "Before a system leaves the department there's been a privacy review.... That's our focus."

Well, there is more here for the entire article.

This is really messed up. How many times are they going to replace the title of same fascist computer system? Obviously until the public gets tired of fighting. Are we going to give up or are we going to rise up once again and stop this thing?

[CatholicEdHead]

1. They are going to push this until it eventually goes through.

[Hissyspit]

2. Bushco Modus Operandi: Get caught, just change the name, keep doing it

[Straight Shooter]

3. The bush administration has a Department of Useless Patriotic Euphenisms

Also known as DUPE. Who else could be coming up with these asinine acronyms.

[file83]

4. but "ADVISE" has a positive spin this time, and its meaning is impossible

for the general populous to remember. If they can't remember it, they won't get mad about it. I think this is a very calculated acronym.

[Straight Shooter]

5. Well, I can name my pig Elizabeth, but it doesn't make her a queen.

;)

[billbuckhead]

6. Phillip K Dick saw it coming

COMMENT
TOO MUCH INFORMATION
Issue of 2002-12-09
Posted 2002-12-02

"When it comes to concocting fevered vision of the future as a way of illuminating the present, Jules Verne got some things right in his time, Aldous Huxley got others, and George Orwell got still others. In our time—in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) o background-hum dread and well-founde paranoia—no literary divinator gets it righte than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick author of "Clans of the Alphane Moon" an dozens of other books, and inspirer of some o Hollywood's spookiest dystopias, includin "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," and "Minority Report." And this is odd, given that he has been dead for twenty years. Too bad he's not still around. It would be interesting to get his take on the Information Awareness Office of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency of the Department of Defense."

<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?021209ta_talk_hertzberg>

[file83]

9. Elizabeth would beg to differ.

[Dunvegan]

12. Not to mention Freepies can't spell it...

...so they can't Google it to find out what it REALLY is.

Series!!11!!1

[Dunvegan]

11. Good one, Straight Shooter.

They also have DICK: Department of Iraq/Iran-warfication Corruption, and Katrina-control.

[wtmusic]

7. But wait! There's a built-in Privacy Protector

no one told me we needed batteries for this thing...

[upi402]

8. unamerican

recommended
thanks!

[Marie26]

10. Because we know all the terrorists are blogging. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Pair this with the new Halliburton-built detention centers and I would say

it's time to hit the panic button.

No more screwing around waiting for politicians to come to our rescue. WE are in danger of getting locked up as subversives. We have to do something about this right now.

[EVDebs]

14. TIA was outsourced to the Bahamas with Global Information Group Ltd.

Ben H. Bell IIIrd's company. This was during the CAPPS II reincarnation of the TIA program; with ChoicePoint providing often bogus 'data' to mine, you now have an effective program to terrorize your political critics and label them 'terrorists'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2025401

With RFIDs capable of tracking your latest purchase of underwear from Wal-Mart, it does seem strange that the administration can't track down a certain Arab with kidney dialysis problems in the Afgan/Pakistan mountain areas, doesn't it ?

They have more on YOU than they do on HIM. Any time they want it. All an outgrowth of REX 84. Just label your opposition and lock 'em up or 'mess with 'em. Tee hee.