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 It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for the U.S. government to invest in protecting the privacy of citizens' personal data. Robert L. Popp, who helped conceive TIA (1) (Telecommunications Industry Association, Arlington, VA, www.tiaonline.org) A membership organization founded in 1988 that sets telecommunications standards worldwide. It was originally an EIA working group that was spun off and merged with the U.S. in 2002 while working at DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. with retired Adm. John Poindexter John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936 in Odon, Indiana) is a retired American naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. , 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. Email your comments to Editor@ndia.org |
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