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New York Times Exposes Total Information Awareness Surveillance Program, Sparking Public Outcry

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The New York Times publishes an investigative piece by John Markoff exposing the full scope of the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, a $240 million initiative that aims to create unprecedented mass surveillance capabilities by mining personal data from financial …

New York Times John Markoff DARPA John Poindexter Information Awareness Office +2 more surveillance privacy media investigative-journalism TIA +3 more
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