The good news that I gleaned from this site is that Congress stopped funding the efforts of the government to find "information signatures" of individuals in order to combat terrorism is 2003. However, "the FBI and TSA are also working on data mining projects that will fuse commercial databases, public databases and intelligence data."
Total Information Awareness seems very Orwellian to me, reminiscent of 1984 and Big Brother.
It also reminds me of the Benjamin Franklin quote: "Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security." I happen to agree with Ben, and I hope the public wakes up to the very real possibility that our rights are deteriorating.
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