The Return of Total Information Awareness

The government project known as TIA (Total Information Awareness) has returned. It's now known as ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement) and run out of Homeland Security instead of Defense. You trust Homeland Security more than Defense right? We weren't really using the fourth amendment anyway, were we?

To quote a friend:

"I knew they'd have to drive a stake through Poindexter's heart to put this to rest."

Here is a lengthy Christian Science Monitor article about it: Link