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20070622

Mitt Romney - Jay Garrity - Political - Police - Car - Massachusetts - Company - New Hampshire - Databases - Reporter - Privacy - 2008 Election - "Romney aide is the focus of probe: Allegedly acted as State Police trooper." ... "State Police are investigating one of [2008 election Republican Presidential candidate] Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington [Massachusetts] company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe." ... "Jay Garrity, who is director of operations on Romney's presidential campaign and a constant presence at his side, became the primary target of the investigation, according to one of the sources, after authorities traced the cellphone used to make the call back to him" ... "The New Hampshire attorney general, according to the Associated Press, has also opened an investigation into a report that a Romney aide, later identified as Garrity, pulled over a New York Times reporter in New Hampshire and said he had run his license plate." ... "New Hampshire law prohibits private citizens from accessing license plate databases or pulling over fellow citizens." ... "In 2004, the Globe reported, Garrity was cited and fined for driving a Crown Victoria with red and blue lights mounted in the grill, a siren, a PA system, and strobe lights; and for having a nightstick and identification showing a State Police patch that read "Official Business."" -By Stephanie Ebbert and Scott Helman with contributions by Suzanne Smalley, Andrea Estes, and Jonathan Saltzman -Boston/Globe

20070414

Noteworthy - Texas - Political - Intelligence - Law - Enforcement - Terrorism - Database - Business - KY - "Perry's database of Texans concerns lawmakers." ... "If you've had a traffic ticket recently, you likely are in the privately run database of criminals and potential terrorists being kept by [Texas Republican Governor] Gov. Rick Perry's office." ... "The database is intended to centralize information for police agencies, but some state lawmakers are afraid it can be misused for political purposes if the governor's office controls it instead of the Texas Department of Public Safety [DPS]." ... "The Texas Data Exchange database, TDEx, was developed after 9/11 and Perry established an Office of Homeland Security." ... "State law says it was to be overseen by the DPS, but it was quickly moved to the Office of Homeland Security at Perry's request, DPS Col. Thomas Davis testified Friday before the House State Affairs Committee." ... "Names of more than 1 million Texans are housed in the database, drawn from records of state, local and, soon, federal law enforcement agencies." ... "The database has information ranging from intelligence on potential terrorists to standard criminal convictions to drug investigations to speeding tickets and red-light violations." ... "TDEx is also poised for a major expansion by the end of May, when it also will start tapping into national records from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Prison Management, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, [Perry's director of homeland security, Steve] McCraw said." ... "Critics note that the governor's homeland security office is not a law enforcement agency and question its authority to access law enforcement data under federal law." ... "The TDEx database is managed by Appriss Inc. of Louisville, Ky., and is an extension of its JusticeXchange program to provide state and local law enforcement agencies with a unified national crime database." -By Polly Ross Hughes and R. G. Ratcliffe with contributions by Gary Scharrar -HoustonChronicle.com

20070329

Consumer - Database - Hackers - Corporate - Computer - Net - Crime - "TJX discloses largest data theft: 45.7M customers." ... "The theft of millions of customer credit and debit card numbers from the parent of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and other retail chains underscores the rising sophistication of cybercriminals." ... "TJX said late Wednesday that hackers swiped account numbers for 45.7 million customers over a two-year period — the biggest publicly disclosed data theft." ... "One way hackers break into corporate databases is by infecting laptops used by employees and suppliers who are permitted access to the company's intranet via a virtual private network, or VPN." -By Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz -USATODAY

20060901

Entertainment - Business - Technology - Consumer - Database - Parents & Children - "Disney's Finger Scan Upgrade Raises Privacy Concerns." ... "An upgrade on Disney's finger scanning technology implemented to prevent ticket fraud or resale is raising concerns from privacy advocates, according to Local 6 News." ... "For years, Walt Disney World has been reading the shape of visitors' fingers on its property. Now, the upgraded controversial finger scanning machines scan fingerprint information." ... ""Privacy advocates worry that Disney is getting too much of your personal information and their concern is where that information goes after it is scanned," Local 6 reporter Jessica D'Onofrio said." -Local6.com

20060607

Noteworthy - Government - Military - Intelligence - Computer - Database - Identity Theft - Law Enforcement - Maryland - "Data Theft Affected Most in Military: National Security Concerns Raised." ... "Social Security numbers and other personal information for as many as 2.2 million U.S. military personnel -- including nearly 80 percent of the active-duty force -- were among the data stolen from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs analyst last month, federal officials said yesterday, raising concerns about national security as well as identity theft." ... "The department announced that personal data for as many as 1.1 million active-duty military personnel, 430,000 National Guard members and 645,000 reserve members may have been included on an electronic file stolen May 3 from a department employee's house in Aspen Hill [Maryland]. The data include names, birth dates and Social Security numbers, VA spokesman Matt Burns said." ... "Defense officials said the loss is unprecedented and raises concerns about the safety of U.S. military forces. But they cautioned that law enforcement agencies investigating the incident have not found evidence that the stolen information has been used to commit identity theft." ... "Army spokesman Paul Boyce said: "Obviously there are issues associated with identity theft and force protection."" ... "For example, security experts said, the information could be used to find out where military personnel live. "This essentially can create a Zip code for where each of the service members and [their] families live, and if it fell into the wrong hands could potentially put them at jeopardy of being targeted," said David Heyman, director of the homeland security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)." ... "Another worry is that the information could reach foreign governments and their intelligence services or other hostile forces, allowing them to target service members and their families, the experts said." (1, 2) -By Ann Scott Tyson and Christopher Lee with contributions by Ernesto Londoño -WashingtonPost
Government - Military - Computer - Database - Identity Theft - People - Homes - Education - Consumer - "Data on 2.2M Active Troops Stolen From VA: Pentagon Says Data on About 2.2 Million Active-Duty Troops Among Material Stolen From VA Employee." ... "Nearly all active-duty military, Guard and Reserve members about 2.2 million total may be at risk for identity theft because their personal information was among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month." ... "In a new disclosure Tuesday, VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said the agency was mistaken when it said over the weekend that up to 50,000 Navy and National Guard personnel were among the 26.5 million veterans whose names, birthdates and Social Security numbers were stolen on May 3." ... "The number is actually much higher because the VA realized it had records on file for most active-duty personnel because they are eligible to receive VA benefits such as GI Bill educational assistance and the home loan guarantee program." (1, 2) -Hope Yen -AP via -ABCNEWS.com

20060514

Secret - Military - Government - Intelligence - Phone - Database - Privacy - Law - Civil Liberties - Terrorism - Politics - "Poll: 51% oppose NSA database." ... "A majority of Americans disapprove of a massive Pentagon database containing the records of billions of phone calls made by ordinary citizens, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. About two-thirds are concerned that the program may signal other, not-yet-disclosed efforts to gather information on the general public." ... "POLL RESULTS: NSA database reaction" ... "The survey of 809 adults Friday and Saturday shows a nation wrestling with the balance between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberties." ... "By 51%-43%, those polled disapprove of the program, disclosed Thursday in USA TODAY. The National Security Agency has been collecting phone records from three of the nation's largest telecommunication companies since soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." -By Susan Page -USATODAY

20060512

Privacy - Opinion - Secret - Military - Government - Intelligence - Phone - Database - Civil Liberties - San Francisco - California - "Breaking the Law? A privacy advocate explains why Americans should care about the NSA's database of phone records." ... "Domestic spying or national security? The debate over whether the government is poking too closely into Americans' lives was inflamed this week following reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) is creating a massive database of millions of phone records-and that three major telecom companies have cooperated in the effort. For privacy advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a [California] San Francisco-based nonprofit, the answer is clear: the NSA is spying on Americans. And, according to EFF, it is illegal for telecom companies to supply customer calling details to the NSA unless they follow established legal procedures to obtain a warrant." ... "If the EFF has its way, the onus may soon be on the federal government to prove that its requests to the telecom companies were legal. In January of this year, the group filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T for "allowing and assisting" the NSA's "illegal wiretapping and data-mining." The Department of Justice has already stepped in, indicating April 28 that it intends to seek dismissal of the case by asserting the "military and state secrets privilege." With recent allegations in USA Today that Verizon and BellSouth also covertly provided information about domestic phone calls to the federal government, the progress of EFF's suit will be scrutinized by civil libertarians and other privacy advocates. A hearing to determine the court schedule for this case will be held May 17." (1, 2) -By Susanna Schrobsdorff -MSNBC/Newsweek

EFF.org - "Electronic Frontier Foundation."

20060511

Secret - Government - Terrorism - Telephone - Database - Intelligence - Law - Civil Liberties - Politics - California - Russ Feingold - Wisconsin - "Bush Says U.S. Spying Is Not Widespread." ... "President Bush today denied that the government is "mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans," as Democrats expressed outrage over a news report describing a National Security Agency program that has collected vast amounts of telephone records." ... "He [Bush] said all intelligence work was conducted "within the law" and that domestic conversations were not listened to without a court warrant." ... ""The privacy of all Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities," he said. "Our efforts are focused on Al Qaeda and their known associates."" ... "But Democrats reacted angrily to the USA Today article and its description of the program's vast size, including an assertion by one unnamed source that its goal was the creation of a database of every phone call ever made within the United States' borders." ... "Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who is a member of the Intelligence Committee as well as the Judiciary Committee, appeared to confirm at least the gist of the article, while stressing that what was under discussion was not wiretapping. "It's fair to say that what is in the news this morning is not content collection," she said." ... "Even so, she warned, "I happen to believe that we are on our way to a major Constitutional confrontation on the Fourth Amendment guarantees over unreasonable search and seizure."" ... "Senator Russell D. Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who is also on both the judiciary and intelligence panels, expressed dismay over what he termed the administration's "arrogance and abuse of power." He said the United States can fight terrorism and still protect privacy, "but only if we have a president who believes in these principles."" (1, 2) -By John O'Neil -NYTimes
Privacy - Law - Terrorism - Politics - Secret - Military - Government - Intelligence - Phone - Database - VT - Ariz.- "NSA Program Revealed: An article in Thursday's USA Today reported that three of the largest U.S. phone companies [AT&T, Bell South and Verizon] have been providing the National Security Agency with phone records from millions of Americans since 9/11."

- SEN. PATRICK LEAHY, D-Vt.: "Look at this headline."

- KWAME HOLMAN: "Only hours after it appeared in print, the story that the National Security Agency secretly has been gathering a giant database of phone records set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill. Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy was visibly angry about it and lashed out at the Bush administration at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting scheduled to discuss judicial nominations."

- SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: "Only through the press, we begin to learn the truth. The secret collection of phone call records tens of millions of Americans. Now, are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al-Qaida? If that's the case, we've really failed in any kind of a war on terror."

- KWAME HOLMAN: "Arizona Republican Jon Kyl responded."

- SEN. JON KYL, R-Ariz.: "This is nuts. We are in a war, and we've got to collect intelligence on enemy, and you can't tell the enemy in advance how you're going to do it."

- KWAME HOLMAN: "Emblazoned across the front page of USA Today, the lengthy report said the code-breaking National Security Agency contracted three of the nation's largest phone companies to provide records of home and business telephone calls made by their customers." ... "The NSA earlier was revealed to have been monitoring, without warrants, international phone calls and e-mails thought to be linked to terrorists." ... "USA Today telecommunications reporter Leslie Cauley spent the last several months preparing today's story."

- LESLIE CAULEY, USA Today: "The NSA is collecting the call detail records of millions of ordinary Americans."

- KWAME HOLMAN: "The companies reportedly contracted by the spy agency are AT&T, Bell South and Verizon."

- LESLIE CAULEY: "The pitch to the phone companies was: We feel this information can be very helpful in smoking out, you know, and tracking suspected terrorists. And, again, three out of the four agreed."

- KWAME HOLMAN: "But Qwest, a telecommunications company that provides local phone service to 14 million customers in 14 western and northwestern states, reportedly refused to participate."

-PBS /NewsHour

Michael Hayden - Secret - Government - Terrorism - Telecommunications - Intelligence - Database - People - Business - Law - Civil Liberties - Privacy - Politics - "NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls." ... "The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY." ... "The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews." ... ""It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added." ... "For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others." ... "The three telecommunications companies are working under contract with the NSA, which launched the program in 2001 shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the sources said. The program is aimed at identifying and tracking suspected terrorists, they said." ... "The sources would talk only under a guarantee of anonymity because the NSA program is secret." ... "Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated Monday by President Bush to become the director of the CIA, headed the NSA from March 1999 to April 2005. In that post, Hayden would have overseen the agency's domestic call-tracking program. Hayden declined to comment about the program." ... "The NSA's domestic program, as described by sources, is far more expansive than what the White House has acknowledged. Last year, Bush said he had authorized the NSA to eavesdrop — without warrants — on international calls and international e-mails of people suspected of having links to terrorists when one party to the communication is in the USA. Warrants have also not been used in the NSA's efforts to create a national call database." -By Leslie Cauley with contributions by John Diamond -USATODAY

20060321

Identity Theft - Government - Business - Accountants - Database - Marketers - Consumer - Law - Ill. - "IRS plans to allow preparers to sell data: Critics said the proposed regulation could lead to a loss of privacy for clients." ... "The IRS is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers will be able to sell information from individual returns - or even entire returns - to marketers and data brokers." ... "The change is raising alarm among consumer and privacy-rights advocates." ... "Criticism also came from U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.). In a letter last Tuesday to IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, Obama warned that once in the hands of third parties, tax information could be resold and handled under even looser rules than the IRS sets, increasing consumers' vulnerability to identity theft and other risks." ... ""There is no more sensitive information than a taxpayer's return, and the IRS's proposal to allow these returns to be sold to third-party marketers and database brokers is deeply troubling," Obama wrote." -By Jeff Gelles -Philly.com

20060310

Government - Military - Law Enforcement - Terrorism - Databases - Religion - Privacy - Politics - Florida - "Pentagon admits errors in spying on protesters: NBC: Official says peaceful demonstrators' names erased from database." ... "The Department of Defense admitted in a letter obtained by NBC News on Thursday that it had wrongly added peaceful demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats. The letter followed an NBC report focusing on the Defense Department's Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, report." ... "In 2003, the Defense Department directed a little-known agency, Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), to establish and "maintain a domestic law enforcement database that includes information related to potential terrorist threats directed against the Department of Defense." Then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz also established TALON at that time." ... "The original NBC News report, from December, focused on a secret 400-page Defense Department document listing more than 1,500 "suspicious incidents" across the country over a 10-month period. One such incident was a small group of activists meeting in a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla. [Florida], to plan a protest against military recruiting at local high schools." (1, 2) -Contributed to by Lisa Myers -MSNBC

20060223

Total Information Awareness - Government - Military - Terrorism - Secret - Database - Technology - Privacy - Law - Politics - "TIA Lives On." ... "A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens." ... "Research under the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program --which developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States -- was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency to another group, which builds technologies primarily for the National Security Agency, according to documents obtained by National Journal and to intelligence sources familiar with the move. The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities, but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts." -By Shane Harris -NationalJournal.com

20051220

Government - Military - Intelligence - Total Information Awareness - Secrecy - Consumer - Telecommunications -Databases - Privacy - Law -West-Virginia - Dick Cheney - Terrorism - "Bush, Democrats swap charges over his approval of wiretaps." ... "The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, released a letter he wrote to Vice President Dick Cheney on July 17, 2003, the day he learned of the surveillance in a meeting with Cheney, three other lawmakers and the heads of the CIA and NSA. Rockefeller expressed deep misgivings and said the program reminded him of Total Information Awareness, a controversial Pentagon effort to mine credit-card data, cellphone calls and even bank withdrawals to spot terrorist activity." ... ""These concerns were never addressed, and I was prohibited from sharing my views with my colleagues" by secrecy laws, Rockefeller said Monday. He accused the president and his aides of "repeatedly misrepresenting the facts" in recent days and demanded a "full investigation into the legal and operational aspects of the program" now that the program has come to light." -By Todd J. Gillman -DallasNews.com via -SeattleTimes.NWsource

20050430

- - - Databases - "Google searches for quality not quantity." ... "The database will be built by continually monitoring the number of stories from all news sources, along with average story length, number with bylines, and number of the bureaux cited, along with how long they have been in business. Google's database will also keep track of the number of staff a news source employs, the volume of internet traffic to its website and the number of countries accessing the site." -NewScientist

20050419

- Databases - "DSW Data Theft Much Larger Than Estimated.." ... "Thieves who accessed a DSW Shoe Warehouse database obtained 1.4 million credit card numbers and the names on those accounts 10 times more than investigators estimated last month." ... "The company, a subsidiary of Retail Ventures Inc., announced the thefts last month after notifying federal authorities and credit card companies." ... "Besides the credit card numbers, the thieves obtained driver's license numbers and checking account numbers from 96,000 transactions involving checks, the company said." -AP via -ABCNEWS.com

20050412

Databases - Hacking - - - "March data breach much larger than first reported." ... "Data broker LexisNexis said Tuesday that personal information may have been stolen on 310,000 U.S. citizens, or nearly 10 times the number found in a data breach announced last month." ... "An investigation by the firm's Anglo-Dutch parent Reed Elsevier determined that its databases had been fraudulently breached 59 times using stolen passwords, leading to the possible theft of personal information such as addresses and Social Security numbers." -Reuterswith contributions by Adam Pasick via -USATODAY

20050329

- - Databases - "Freelancers Hit the Jackpot." ... "The settlement, which could net qualifying freelancers a collective minimum of $10 million and maximum of $18 million, is the result of a lawsuit meant to remunerate writers for work that had been published over the years in online databases without their approval. " -By Rachel Metz -Wired

20050216

California - Consumer - Company - Computer - Database - Net - Hackers - "Big ID Theft in California." ... "A company that collects consumer data warned thousands of Californians that hackers penetrated the company's computer network and may have stolen credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information." ... "ChoicePoint Inc., which sells such data to government agencies and a variety of companies, acknowledged Tuesday that several hackers broke into its computer database and purloined data from as many as 35,000 Californians." -Wired

20030228

- - - "New checks planned for air travelers: Plan for background checks draw objections from some." ... "Civil liberties groups are raising objections to a government plan for a new system that would check background information and assign a threat level to everyone who buys a ticket for a commercial flight." ... "Transportation officials say CAPPS II — Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System — will use databases that already operate in line with privacy laws and won’t profile based on race, religion or ethnicity." -AP via -MSNBC

20021220

- TIA: Total Information Awareness - "Federal database spy site fading away." ... "Call it the incredibly shrinking government Web site." ... "As controversy grows over the Defense Department's shadowy Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, the project's virtual presence is steadily decreasing. If fully implemented, TIA would link databases from sources such as credit card companies, medical insurers, and motor vehicle databases for police convenience in hopes of snaring terrorists." ... "First, biographical information about the TIA project leaders, including retired Adm. John Poindexter, disappeared from the Defense Department's site last month. A mirror that one activist created from Google's cache shows the deleted information included four resumes listing past work experience but no addresses or contact information." -By Declan McCullagh-CNET /News

20021218

OPINION - - - - TIA: Total Information Awareness - "Snooping in All the Wrong Places: Not only would the Administration's plan to centralize every American's records destroy privacy, the security payoff would be minimal." ... "The 2002 elections proved one thing: The promise of security wins votes. The GOP campaigned on a pledge to make the country safer, and it brought home one of the biggest midterm victories in decades. That huge win may have emboldened the Bush Administration to ignore widespread criticism of the Defense Dept.'s $240 million effort to develop a Total Information Awareness system (TIA)." ... "The outrage over TIA doesn't seem to have reached the President's ear, but it should. It's not too late for him to realize the folly of such a plan. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project would combine every American's bank records, tax filings, driver's license information, credit-card purchases, medical data, and phone and e-mail records into one giant centralized database. This would then be combed through for evidence of suspicious activity." -By Jane Black -BusinessWeek/Daily

20021203

TIA: Total Information Awareness - - - Law Enforcement News - "Why the Pentagon will watch where you shop: New Total Information Awareness project will sniff company databases for terrorists." ... "Should Uncle Sam know as much about you as MasterCard does?" ... "In essence, that may be the key question posed by the Pentagon's new Total Information Awareness (TIA) project." ... "This effort - whose Latin motto [Scientia Est Potentia] translates as "knowledge is power" - aims to create huge databases that sift through the purchases, travel, immigration status, income, and other data of hundreds of millions of Americans. Its purpose: to sniff out the terrorists among us." ... ""There are three parts to the TIA project," says Edward Aldridge, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics." ... "The first part of the technology is voice recognition, which would include sifting through electronically recorded transmissions and provide rapid translations of foreign languages." ... "The second part is to develop a tool that would discover connections between transactions, such as passports, airline tickets, rental cars, gun or chemical purchases, as well as arrests and other suspicious activities." ... "And the third part is collaborative - a mechanism to allow information-and analysis-sharing among agencies." ... ""If [the testing] proves useful," Mr. Aldridge says, "TIA will then be turned over to the intelligence, counterintelligence, and law enforcement communities as a tool to help them in their battle against domestic terrorism."" -By Faye Bowers and Peter Grier -CSMonitor/buy

20021109

TIA: Total Information Awareness - - "Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans." ... "As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, has described the system in Pentagon documents and in speeches, it will provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant." ... "Historically, military and intelligence agencies have not been permitted to spy on Americans without extraordinary legal authorization." ... "In order to deploy such a system, known as Total Information Awareness, new legislation would be needed, some of which has been proposed by the Bush administration in the Homeland Security Act that is now before Congress. That legislation would amend the Privacy Act of 1974, which was intended to limit what government agencies could do with private information." (1, 2) -By John Markoff -NYTimes via -LawMeme

20021017

TIA: Total Information Awareness - - "DARPA developing info awareness." ... "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing a total information awareness system to enable national security analysts to detect, classify, track, understand and pre-empt terrorist attacks against the United States." ... "Total information awareness incorporates transactional data systems, biometric authentication technologies, intelligence data and automated virtual data repositories, with the goal of creating an "end-to-end, closed-loop system," Popp said." ... "The office's budget for fiscal 2003 is about $150 million, up from about $96 million last year, and a "significant amount" of that funding is being spent on the total information awareness system, Popp said." -Dan Caterinicchia -FCW.com

20021011

- "Technology Shapes Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts: Candidates, Parties Using E-mail and Wireless Devices To Organize Supporters." ... "Keenly aware that the role of the World Wide Web in the 2000 elections fell far short of the hype, campaign consultants now are selling the Internet less for its vote-getting power than as a command-and-control tool to reach out to the faithful." ... ""The Internet is a medium that's best used to preach to the choir, not to convert," said Dan Manatt, director of YDemsCan.net, a Democratic political action committee that supports candidates aged 40 and younger. "The political landscape online is changing subtly in that it's really starting to tilt toward the medium's strengths."" ... "In Iowa, a state hosting several pivotal and tight races, both parties are counting on technology to gain that extra edge." (1, 2) -By Brian Krebs-WashingtonPost>TechNews

20020910

TIA: Total Information Awareness - - "Terrorist-tracking tools." ... "A controversial Defense Department counterterrorism office created this year is moving ahead with plans to create terrorist-catching technologies, amid concerns raised by civil-liberties groups about the office's mission and its leader." ... "The Information Awareness Office—within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's high-tech idea factory—was created in February to develop technologies that can mine private communications and commercial transactions looking for patterns of behavior that might reveal terrorist activity, and to determine options for dealing with it. The IAO's director is John Poindexter, a former national security adviser to President Reagan." ... "Both the office's activities and Poindexter's past have put civil-liberties advocates on edge. Poindexter, who declined National Journal's request for an interview, was convicted in 1990 of misleading and obstructing Congress during the Iran-Contra investigation, a decision later overturned on appeal because immunized testimony had been used to win the conviction. Also, during the 1980s Poindexter authored a plan to put information about commercial computer security under military jurisdiction and out of the public's reach." -By William New, NationalJournal via -GovExec.com

20020731

"Factiva CEO: Surfers will pay for news." ... "The chief executive of content-aggregating business Factiva says that Internet users will get used to paying for content in the next couple of years." ... :"In order for publishers to continue to pay journalists they're going to have to start charging, and that's a good thing. Valuable information has a price," Hart told ZDNet Australia on a recent visit to Sydney." ... "Factiva, a 50:50 joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters born in 1999, aggregates 8000 commercial sources and posts 120,000 new articles every day, of which some customers might just want two or three articles that that are relevant to them." -By Rachel Lebihan -ZDNet.co.uk t>News

$ Factiva.com

20020726

Operation_TIPS - "Ashcroft offers TIPS assurances." ... "Amid growing concern over Operation TIPS, Ashcroft sought to assure members of the Senate Judiciary Committee July 25 that reports of suspicious activity will not be retained in a central database, but he said some reports may be kept in databases maintained by various law enforcement agencies." ... "Ashcroft said he advised against creating a database that would be maintained by Operation TIPS, and "I have been given assurances that TIPS will not maintain a database." But the FBI and other agencies might preserve TIPS reports in databases, he said." -By William Matthews -FCW.com
Operation_TIPS - "Ashcroft: TIPS Plan Won't Have Central Database: Anti-Terror Information Will Be Passed On, He Tells Committee." ... ""We don't want to see a 1984, Orwellian-type situation here where neighbors are reporting on neighbors," Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) said during Ashcroft's testimony yesterday." -By Dan Eggen-WashingtonPost

20020725

Operation_TIPS - "

Senators Quiz Ashcroft on Citizen Watch Program." ... "While Ashcroft said on Thursday he had recommended that the information not be stored in any Justice Department database, earlier statements from the department indicated the information would be kept in a database." -By Niala Boodhoo

-Reuters via -Miami/Herald

20020724

Operation_TIPS - "Buying Trouble: Your Grocery List Could Spark a Terror Probe." ... "As John Ashcroft's Citizens Corps spy program prepares for its debut next month, it seems scores of American companies have already become willing snitches. A few months ago, the Privacy Council surveyed executives from 22 companies in the travel industry—not just airlines but hotels, car rental services, and travel agencies—and found that 64 percent of respondents had turned over information to investigators and 59 percent had lowered their resistance to such demands. In that sampling, conducted with The Boston Globe, half of the businesses said they hadn't decided if they'd inform customers of the change, and more than a third said outright that they wouldn't. Only three said they would go public about the level of their cooperation with law enforcement." -By Erik Baard -VillageVoice ed. 20020724-30

20020304

TIA: Total Information Awareness - - "Data mining aims at national security." ... "In addition to funding programs that will improve security in the open-source community, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is also in the midst of an internal makeover." ... "The Information Awareness Office was formally established in mid-January. Its mission is to develop and demonstrate information technologies, such as data-mining tools, designed to counter "asymmetric threats," such as terrorist attacks." ... "Another DARPA office created in the aftermath of Sept. 11 is the Information Exploitation Office. Walker said the office's mission is to develop sensors and systems with "application to battle space awareness, targeting, command and control, and the supporting infrastructure required to address land-based threats in a dynamic, closed-loop process."" -By Dan Caterinicchia -FCW.com

20020124

"Once-Trustworthy Newspaper Databases Have Become Unreliable and Frustrating: Supreme Court decision led publishers to purge much archival material, to the dismay of scholars." -By Scott Carlson (20020125) -Chronicle/free

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"A Smarter Web: The Web is huge but not very smart. Computer scientists are beginning to build a "Semantic Web" that understands the meanings that underlie the tangle of information." ... "the ultimate goal [dream;-] of the Semantic Web is to give users near omniscience over the vast resources of the Internet, turning the millions of existing database islands into a single gigantic database Pangea." (1, 2) -By Mark Frauenfelder -TechnologyReview

20011118

"Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us: The government is pulling back on previously shared data to keep it from aiding terrorists." -By Eric Lichtblau -LAtimes

20011118

Discussion - "Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases." -Slashdot

20011112

"The Really, Really, REALLY Big Cartoon Database / Search Engine." -ResearchBuzz
"The Big Cartoon DataBase."

200109--

.Five search engine descriptions - 200109 issue -onlineinc

200107--

."Elsevier Science Launches Scirus.com" -description from the - 200107 issue -onlineinc
Scirus.com - "For Scientific Information Only"

200107--

.Search engine descriptions - 200107 issue -onlineinc

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