Fortune’s Peter Lewis gives his worst technology of the year award to TIA:
But in terms of potential impact on our lives, the Worst of 2002 award goes to TIA, the Total Information Awareness program, spawned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Awareness Office. TIA is exploring the feasibility of developing a national surveillance system intended to identify potential terrorists and criminals through “data mining” of the public and private electronic records of every citizen.
Worst technology of the year
Fortune’s Peter Lewis gives his worst technology of the year award to TIA:
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