Abstract
Part of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Awareness Office, the Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, enacted in the wake of September 11th, aims to capture the information signature of citizens suspected of terrorism or criminal acts. Technical means (including computer algorithms and human analysis) afford the government the ability to track those involved in low-intensity/low-density forms of warfare and crime, its ultimate goal to track individuals through collecting as much information about them as possible.Various public interest groups have criticized this initiative, particularly on the basis of privacy and security risks, identity theft, misuse of information, and overt citizen surveillance. This article will provide an overview of TIA and situate it within an ongoing political economy of the military-industrial complex, now revamped for an emerging security industry.
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