April 02, 2007

Latest Internet Surveillance System reborn in Singapore

Wired.COM said:

"In 2003, plans for [usa] Total Information Awareness, or TIA, sparked outrage among privacy advocates....Poindexter resigned...[TIA was terminated, to be reborn in] Singapore, a country that mixes elements of democratic governance with authoritarian rule..."

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Data mining and surveillance of internet works against privacy of the internet user and his free speech. It will send everyone back to the stone age of controlled "Speakers corners" where nobody speaks anything significant or controversial and nobody listens."

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on March 31//5:18pm and published by jseng, cowboycaleb :: 4541 reads | trackback
Comments 3

welcome to 1984!

Posted by sambamsam* on 2 April, 2007 - 1:49pm

The Great Firewall in China is already an impressive working model.

Actually, the article seems to be taking a lot of journalistic license, and Singapore's scheme isn't really all that similar to the TIA. Dave Snowden, who was heavily involved in setting up the system here, gives a clarification on his blog here:

http://www.cognitive-edge.com/2007/03/unwired.php