Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
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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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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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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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