Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

{{Short description|US mass detection program}}
{{Distinguish|text=the fictional system portrayed in [[The Last Enemy (TV series)]]}}
[[File:Total Information Awareness -- system diagram.gif|thumb|325px|Diagram of the ''Total Information Awareness'' system from the official (decommissioned) [[Information Awareness Office]] website]]
[[File:TIA graphic.gif|thumb|Presentation slide produced by DARPA describing TIA|325px]]
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'''Total Information Awareness''' ('''TIA''') was a mass detection program{{clarify |date=November 2023 |reason=What kind of masses was this program intended to detect?}} by the United States [[Information Awareness Office]]. It operated under this title from February to May 2003 before being renamed '''Terrorism Information Awareness'''.<ref name=dapra1/><ref name=rename>{{cite magazine|last=Ryan Singel|title=Funding for TIA All But Dead|url=https://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2003/07/59606|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|access-date=7 December 2013|date=14 June 2003}}</ref>

Based on the concept of [[predictive policing]], TIA was meant to correlate detailed information about people in order to anticipate and prevent terrorist incidents before execution.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Murray|first=N.|title=Profiling in the age of total information awareness|journal=[[Race & Class]]|date=4 October 2010|volume=52|issue=2|pages=3–24|doi=10.1177/0306396810377002|s2cid=144001217}}</ref> The program modeled specific information sets in the hunt for terrorists around the globe.<ref>{{cite news|first=JOHN|last=MARKOFF|title=Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COMP.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 December 2013|date=November 9, 2002}}</ref> Admiral [[John Poindexter]] called it a "[[Manhattan Project]] for [[counter-terrorism]]".<ref name= shorrock>{{cite book| last = Shorrock| first = Tim| title = Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing| publisher = Simon and Schuster| date = 2008| pages = [https://archive.org/details/spiesforhiresecr00shor/page/221 221]| url = https://archive.org/details/spiesforhiresecr00shor | url-access = registration| isbn = 9780743282246}}</ref> According to Senator [[Ron Wyden]], TIA was the "biggest surveillance program in the history of the United States".<ref>{{cite news|title=Pentagon's 'Terror Information Awareness' program will end|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-25-pentagon-office_x.htm|access-date=19 December 2013|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=2003-09-25|agency=AP}}</ref>

Congress defunded the Information Awareness Office in late 2003 after media reports criticized the government for attempting to establish "Total Information Awareness" over all citizens.<ref>{{cite news|last=Jonathan Turley|title=George Bush's Big Brother|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-17-oe-turley17-story.html|newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=19 December 2013|date=November 17, 2002}}</ref><ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name= washtimes1>{{cite news|title=U.S. agencies collect, examine personal data on Americans|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/may/28/20040528-122605-9267r/?page=all|newspaper=[[The Washington Times]]|access-date=19 December 2013|date=May 28, 2004|quote=The most widely reported data-mining project—the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program—was shut down by Congress because of widespread privacy fears. The project sought to use credit-card, medical and travel records to search for terrorists and was dubbed by privacy advocates as a "supersnoop" system to spy on Americans.}}</ref>

Although the program was formally suspended, other government agencies later adopted some of its software with only superficial changes. TIA's core architecture continued development under the code name "Basketball". According to a 2012 ''[[New York Times]]'' article, TIA's legacy was "quietly thriving" at the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA).<ref name="nytimesnsa">{{cite news|last=SHANE HARRIS|title=Giving In to the Surveillance State|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/whos-watching-the-nsa-watchers.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 December 2013|date=August 22, 2012}}</ref>