The BBC reports that in a surprisingly positive move, the US Senate has voted to withdraw funding from the proposed Terrorism Information Awareness programme (TIA).
The TIA (previously called by the much more chilling name “Total Information Awareness”) was to have been the largest snooping system in the world. Its objective was to centrally co-ordinate and cross-reference every single piece of data available on every single person in America. The justification for this appalling idea was the phoney “war on terror”. As usual, supporters used the lie that “the innocent have nothing to fear”.
It now seems that with funding removed the TIA will be scrapped – publicly at least.
Now if only this country could remove funding from then scrap Big Blunkett.
Good news. Let’s move onto Big Blunkett. 🙂