Privacy Overview
Information Access and Citizen Protections
The September 11th terrorist attacks increased government awareness of the inadequacies of its information- gathering techniques, its information technology, and its information holdings. To remedy this situation, various Federal agencies are addressing issues that may have a direct bearing on the balance between the government’s need for information and an individual’s expectation of privacy. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) program is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the Department of Defense (DoD) in the Information Awareness Office (IAO) as an experimental prototype system that integrates three types of technologies — machine translation of languages; data…
