All Posts Tagged With: "Total Information Awareness"
The State’s Quest for Total Information Awareness
David Brown is a freelance writer and editor. This is the second of two parts. Efforts to transform the United States into a surveillance regime on a totalitarian or quasi-totalitarian model are currently underway. In addition to attempts to beef up and make uniform the state driver’s licenses-thereby blending them into either a de facto [...]
1May2003 | David M. Brown | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Pentagon Ramps Up the War on Privacy
David Brown is a freelance writer and editor. This is the first of two parts. [Editor's Note: As we went to press the U.S. Congress had hampered the Defense Department's ability to carry out the threat to privacy discussed in the following article. Under the provision adopted the Pentagon cannot proceed until it assesses for [...]
1Apr2003 | David M. Brown | 0 comments | Continued-
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