Total Information Awareness

Previously the Defense Department proposed an operation called Total Information Awareness that would have allowed them to "data mine" personal information on driver's licenses, passports, credit card purchases, car rentals, medical prescriptions and records, banking transactions, employment records and more.

Big Brother is Here 2006

Another project called Total Information Awareness, also run by John Poindexter, a key figure in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, would allow the government to tap into databases to collect personal information, including medical and financial records.

CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2003 2003

It's called Total Information Awareness, and if carried out, this plan would empower the government to collect information on every citizen of the United States and keep it there, and then in the discretion of somebody in the administration, they could use it or not use it, presumably because they were simply focused on countering the terrorism threat.

CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2002 2002

It's called Total Information Awareness, and if carried out, this plan would empower the government to collect information on every citizen of the United States and keep it there, and then in the discretion of somebody in the administration, they could use it or not use it, presumably because they were simply focused on countering the terrorism threat.

CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2002 2002

In this sense, Recorded Future technologically is an evolutionary step upward from the Total Information Awareness promoted by the CIA's General Poindexter (kept alive in concept by the CIA), but potentially a socially evolutionary step downward.

Bob Jacobson: Google and CIA Invest in a Minority Report-Like Technology That May Make Our World a Less Certain Place 2010

In this sense, Recorded Future technologically is an evolutionary step upward from the Total Information Awareness promoted by the CIA's General Poindexter (kept alive in concept by the CIA), but potentially a socially evolutionary step downward.

Bob Jacobson: Google and CIA Invest in a Minority Report -Like Technology That May Make Our World a Less Certain Place 2010

Admiral John Poindexter, another figure in Iran/Contra, was shaping the shadowy Total Information Awareness program in 2002.

El Salvador Rising 2009

Subsequent iterations included the proposed Patriot Act II with its "compelled informants" provisions, and the totally-creepy Total Information Awareness proposal with its eye-atop-a-pyramid logo and "knowledge is power" slogan.

Randall Amster: The Great Repression: Civil Liberties, the Economy, and a House Mismanaged 2009

But as soon as you start looking for groupings of people, like terrorist networks, which is what Total Information Awareness needs to do, you now have an exponential problem.

Joshuah Bearman: A Former FBI Agent Joins the ACLU -- and Finds Symmetry in Opposition 2009

Total Information Awareness and an 8.6 trillion dollar debt,

OpEdNews - Diary: Shake, Mohammed 2009