************************************************************** Net Happenings - From Educational CyberPlayGround ************************************************************** http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2003/b02072003_bt060-03.html \***QUOTE*** "The Department of Defense will establish two boards to provide oversight of the Total Information Awareness Project, the program designed to develop tools to track terrorists. The two boards, an internal oversight board and an outside advisory committee, will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as it continues its research." [..] Members of the outside advisory board are: Newton Minow (chairman), director of the Annenberg Washington Program and the Annenberg Professor of Communications Law and Policy at Northwestern University Floyd Abrams, renowned civil rights attorney Zoe Baird, president Markle Foundation Griffin Bell, former U.S. Attorney General and Court of Appeals judge Gerhard Casper, president emeritus for Stanford University and Professor of Law William T. Coleman, former chairman and CEO of BEA and now Chief Customer Advocate Lloyd Cutler, former White House Counsel ************************************************************************** Educational CyberPlayGround links to Technology <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Home_TECHNOLOGY.html> Find Information on Security for Teachers, Administrators, Ed. Tech, and Classroom Resources ************************************************************************** [..] "While the research to date is promising, TIA is still only a concept." "TIA does not plan to create a gigantic database. Further, TIA has not ever collected or gathered and is not now collecting or gathering any intelligence information. This is and will continue to be the responsibility of the US foreign intelligence/counterintelligence agencies, which operate under various legal and policy restrictions with congressional oversight. This technology development program in no way alters the authority or responsibility of the intelligence community. Furthermore, TIA has never collected, and has no plan or intent to collect privately held consumer data on U.S. citizens. It is a research program designed to catch terrorists before they strike." ***UNQUOTE*** ************************************************************** The Net Happenings mailing list is a service of Educational CyberPlayGround - http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ ************************************************************** Linking and Announcements For Net Happenings are provided by http://www.EricWard.com and http://www.URLwire.com ************************************************************** If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or would like to sponsor the Net Happenings service - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html> Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Change Email Preferences - <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html> **************************************************************