Total Information Awareness

Systems Overview

Action Alerts

• Ask Your Senators to Support the Data-Mining Moratorium Act of 2003!

Documents:

• October 3, 2003 Total/Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA): Is It Truly Dead?
• October 3, 2003 Conference Report on H.R. 2658, Department of Defence Appropriations Act, 2004 (House Report 108-283)
• May 23, 2003 EFF Review of TIA Report
• May 20, 2003 Report to Congress regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program
• Letters to CIA Director George Tennet, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John Ashcroft asking that the Congressionally mandated Department of Defense report on TIA be made public.
• Letter to Committee on Homeland Security regarding CAPPS II
• Letter to Govenor George Pataki of New York regarding S. 1627
• Comments to the Department of Transportation on CAPPS II
• Comments and Analysis to the Department of Transportation on CAPPS II
• Letter Opposing TIA sent to Duncan Hunter and Ike Skelton, signed by EFF and many other organizations
• Senator Chuck Grassley\'s letter to Inspector General Joseph Schmitz (from FAS)
• Senator Leahy\'s letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft
• Senator Tom Harkin\'s Letter to Senator Inouye
• Wyden, Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Corzine Propose Amendment For Congressional Oversight, Accountability of Total Information Awareness Office (PDF 7MB)
• Amendments Offered on TIA (from FAS)
  • Grassley\'s comments
  • Grassley\'s SA 53
  • Wyden\'s SA 59
• Bills Regarding TIA Funding
  • S. 16 introduced by Senator Daschle
  • S. 188 introduced by Senator Feingold
• Funding for Total Information Awareness programs Memorandum from Amy Belasco
• Letter from ACM Senate Committee on Armed Services Leaders

Press Releases

• Whitehouse: The New Terrorist Threat Integration Center
• Feinstein: Senate Approves Wyden-Feinstein Measure to Fence Total Information Awareness Project (January 23, 2003)
• EFF: Senators Seek Moratorium on Government Data-Mining, EFF Supports Privacy Protections (January 16, 2003)

Related Links:

• DARPA TIA site
• DARPA TIA Systems
• John Poindexter, "Information Awareness Office Overview" at DARPATech 2002
  • slides (PDF 1.3MB)
  • script (PDF 52kb)
• EFF Mirror: John Poindexter, "Information Awareness Office Overview" at DARPATech 2002
  • slides (PDF 1.3MB)
  • script (PDF 52kb)
• Senators Inouye and Feinstein Announce Plans to Introduce Legislation to Require Congressional Authorization for Total Information Awareness Program (EFF local mirror)
• NYT: Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running By JOHN MARKOFF and JOHN SCHWARTZ
• New Senate chair voices concerns on information sharing, cybersecurity By William New
• OP-ED: Total Information Awareness: taking the fiction out of science fiction by Lee Tien