Trust me. I'm from the government
from EWeek.com
May 20, 2003
TIA Gets New Name, Old Questions PersistBy Caron Carlson
The Pentagon's research arm, in a report released Tuesday, changed the name of its mammoth electronic surveillance project following public outcry, but concerns that the project will unnecessarily invade privacy without necessarily improving national security remain strong.
Jim Dempsey, executive director of the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, said he was encouraged that the report recognized that the effectiveness of a project like TIA should be evaluated before it is deployed.
"They acknowledge that a threshold question is effectiveness," Dempsey told eWEEK. "They acknowledge that the law has imposed very few limits on what [data] they can get and how they can get it."
Do they acknowlege that any problems they find must be addressed by law instead of policy? Policy can be changed at the drop of a hat. With law they must at least take the effort of closing the door to the smoke-filled back room.
Of course, the ACLU has
commentary on this issue, which includes links to more detailed examinations than can be presented in a press release or blog post. I'll be harvesting those links for the
Attack on Civil Rights page before this post dies of old age.
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