Number: RL31730
Title: Privacy: Total Information Awareness Programs and Related Information Access, Collection, and Protection Laws
Authors: Gina Marie Stevens, American Law Division 
Abstract: This report describes the Total Information Awareness (TIA) programs in the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and related information access, collection, and protection laws. While the law enforcement and intelligence communities argue that more sophisticated information gathering techniques are essential to combat todays sophisticated terrorists, civil libertarians worry that the governments increased capability to assemble information will result in increased and unchecked government power, and the erosion of individual privacy. A coalition of public interest groups has asked Congress to intervene.
Pages: 30
Date: Updated March 21, 2003