Addressing Privacy Concerns
Pentagon Briefing on the TIA System
Following are portions of a transcript of a U.S. Department of Defense news briefing in which Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, discussed acquisition issues and the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program. Aldridge: The war on terror and the tracking of potential terrorists and terrorist acts require that we search for clues of such activities in a mass of data. It’s kind of a signal-to-noise ratio. What are they doing in all these things that are going on around the world? And we decided that new capabilities and new technologies are required to…
