You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
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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.John Poindexter
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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We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
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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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The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.
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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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