DHS Ends Data-Mining Program 75
ExE122 writes "The Department of Homeland Security has "scrapped an ambitious anti-terrorism data-mining tool." The tool, called ADVISE, was being tested with live data rather than test data without having proper security in place. This program had already been under criticism by privacy advocates and members of Congress. However, according to the article, a DHS spokesman assures that the program will be restarted once the security and cost are re-evaluated."
Re:Does this mean I'm off the list? (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyway, isn't this the same "Total Information Awareness" database that John Poindexter started, and was then canceled due to privacy and security concerns, then started again under a different name and director, then stopped again, and now apparently in action again only to be once again stopped? I have to wonder what they're doing. Are they like a little kid who keeps asking their parents to buy them the toy they want, hoping that maybe the 100th time they ask their dad will say okay just to shut them up? Yeah, I think that's pretty much it.
Re:Anti-terrorist methodology (Score:4, Interesting)
Ah, for the good old days! (Score:3, Interesting)
There's something refreshingly honest about that, like a government putting WAR IS PEACE and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH on its buildings instead of pretending they're not a malevolent autocracy.