It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
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I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
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TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
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Now, I don't think I would say that officially. But certainly I felt a great frustration that we had not been able to avoid 911.
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The 911 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.
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Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
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