Two Federally Funded Privacy Protection Programs Eliminated
Two privacy protection programs that were part of the Pentagon�s Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) research project closed their operation although parts of the project�s data-mining research lives on in foreign intelligence R&D programs. One of the privacy protection programs shielded the identity of individuals during a search of government and commercial records until confidence in the potential for terrorist activity reached a defined point. While the other program provided privacy defense when private health records were scanned in search of evidence of potential bio-terror attacks.
Privacy Safeguards Deep-Sixed, March 15, 2004
