Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

===Privacy===
TIA's Genisys component, in addition to integrating and organizing separate databases, was to run an internal "privacy protection program". This was intended to restrict analysts' access to irrelevant information on private U.S. citizens, enforce [[privacy law]]s and policies, and report misuses of data.<ref name= lee>{{cite book| last = Lee| first = Newton| title = Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness| publisher = Springer| edition = 2, illustrated, revised| date = 7 April 2015| pages = 141| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zSv3BwAAQBAJ| isbn = 9783319172446}}</ref> There were also plans for TIA to have an application that could "anonymize" data, so that information could be linked to an individual only by court order (especially for medical records gathered by the bio-surveillance project).<ref name=BIO>{{cite web| url = http://infowar.net/tia/www.darpa.mil/iao/BSS.htm| title = Bio- Surveillance| website = www.darpa.mil/iao| publisher = [[Information Awareness Office]]| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060919113254/http://infowar.net/tia/www.darpa.mil/iao/BSS.htm| archive-date = 2006-09-19}}</ref> A set of audit logs were to be kept, which would track whether innocent Americans' communications were getting caught up in relevant data.<ref name="nytimesnsa"/>