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Ethics of the TIA

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  Ethics and the Terrorism Information Awareness Project
  Michael Ginsburg
  CS 1590
  December 5, 2003
  
       The new Terrorism Information Awareness project has made several enemies from the start. People want to argue that the project is unethical. That it will infringe on every privacy right that human beings have enjoyed since the Constitution was signed. This paper will examine the Terrorism Information Awareness project and then look at it under all of the ethical perspectives outlined in CyberEthics (2003).
  
  What is the TIA
       The Terrorism Information Awareness project (TIA), was originally created as the Total Information Awareness project in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the Department of Defense. The project is a research and development program that will integrate several technologies in order to combat terrorism in the United States. Its goals are to provide both decision-makers and policy-makers valuable information allowing them to take immediate action towards terrorist threats (Report, 2003).
       After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, DARPA formed the Information Awareness Office to bring together existing information technology in order to combat terrorist threats. In addition to the existing programs, DARPA recognized the need for additional programs that would more fully address the requirements of preventing terrorism. The answer was the prototype system named the Total Information Awareness project...