Data-mining guru calls for privacy protection.
One of the architects of the much-ridiculed Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency's "total information awareness"
system says it's time for the U.S. government to invest in
protecting the privacy of citizens' personal data.
Robert L. Popp, who helped conceive TIA in 2002 while working at
DARPA with retired Adm. John Poindexter, says the government should be
able to obtain information to combat terrorism, but it should do more to
ensure privacy rights are not violated. TIA, which Congress killed in
2003, was a data-mining system intended to detect terrorists. But it
came under fire because it would give law enforcement access to private
data without a search warrant.
Popp, who is now in private industry, says the government fails to
grasp how much information on U.S. citizens is available in third-party
hands.
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