Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

===Scope of surveillance===
As a "virtual, centralized, grand database",<ref>{{cite news|last=Anthony M. Townsend|title=Your city is spying on you: From iPhones to cameras, you are being watched right now|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/10/13/your_city_is_spying_on_you_from_iphones_to_cameras_you_are_being_watched_right_now/|work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]|access-date=19 December 2013}}</ref> the scope of surveillance included credit card purchases, magazine subscriptions, web browsing histories, phone records, academic grades, bank deposits, gambling histories, passport applications, airline and railway tickets, driver's licenses, gun licenses, toll records, judicial records, and divorce records.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name = stevens/>

Health and biological information TIA collected included drug prescriptions,<ref name="nytimes1"/> medical records,<ref name="wyden">{{cite web|last=Ron Wyden|author-link=Ron Wyden|title=Wyden Calls For Congressional Oversight, Accountability of Total Information Awareness Office|url=http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-calls-for-congressional-oversight-accountability-of-total-information-awareness-office|quote=On the Web site of this particular program, the Total Information Awareness Program, they cite a Latin slogan—"Knowledge is power"—something we would all agree with, and state: The total information awareness of transnational threats requires keeping track of individuals and understanding how they fit into models. To this end, this office would seek to develop a way to integrate databases into a "virtual centralized grand database". They would be in a position to look at education, travel, and medical records, and develop risk profiles for millions of Americans|publisher=[[United States Senate]]|access-date=19 December 2013|date=January 15, 2003}}</ref> fingerprints, gait, face and iris data,<ref name= stevens/> and [[DNA]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pat M. Holt|title=Driving dangerously with the Patriot Act|journal=Christian Science Monitor|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/r14/2003/1002/p09s01-coop.html|access-date=19 December 2013|date=October 2, 2003|quote=The Defense Department is leading the charge for what it calls Total Information Awareness, a massive database including DNA.}}</ref>