{"id":471,"date":"2002-11-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-14T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_man\/blog_office_information_awareness.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"blog_office_information_awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2002\/11\/14\/blog_office_information_awareness","title":{"rendered":"The Office of Information Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Be afraid. Be very afraid. Total Information Awareness<\/a> may be coming soon to a theatre near you. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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There’s a lot of rhetoric around “TIA”, including William Safire<\/a>’s slightly misleading editorial “You Are a Suspect”<\/a> in today’s New York Times<\/a> (use this to anonymize your registration<\/a>). The scariest thing, I think, is not that this system might work, but that it might even be attempted. Although it would certainly further compromise our eroding constitutional (privacy) rights, it would also represent a terrible waste of money and security resources. <\/p>\n

Although I would have preferred for Minority Report<\/a> to answer the question, “Would we want a system of total surveillance if it worked perfectly?”, instead it answered the question, “Would we want a system of total surveillance if it made errors?” The first question is more difficult, the second more realistic. And it’s this latter question that applies particularly to Admiral John Poindexter<\/a>’s “Total Information Awareness” and related programs. This technology may work fairly well in Hollywood, but in practice, has anyone ever maintained a database even remotely this large with any semblance of accuracy? <\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a> <\/td>\n The Office of Information Awareness<\/span> sounds an awful lot like the Office of Information Retrieval<\/span> to me. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Total Information Awareness may be coming soon to a theatre near you. There’s a lot of rhetoric around “TIA”, including William Safire’s slightly misleading editorial “You Are a Suspect” in today’s New York Times (use this to anonymize your registration). The scariest thing, I think, is not that this system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}