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Salon hints that the Pentagon’s TIA domestic spying project has been progressing rapidly, despite the recent Senate vote to halt the project pending further investigation.

But while Congress asks for reports, TIA is already steaming forward.
According to people with knowledge of the program, TIA has now
advanced to the point where it’s much more than a mere “research
project.” There is a working prototype of the system, and federal
agencies outside the Defense Department have expressed interest in
it.

Most alarmingly, an examination of the research that has been
conducted so far into TIA reveals that even while the project has
been
charging ahead, only token attention has been paid to perhaps its
most
critical aspect—privacy and civil liberties protection. The
Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is taking the lead
on
TIA, has stymied the efforts of outside groups to find out more about
TIA’s protections.

– Salon, Total Information Awareness: Down, but not out.