[Politech] DHS chief floats idea of creating non-profit group as spy agency [priv]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 19:27:39 PDT


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Subject: DHS chief floats idea of collecting private citizens'information
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 18:00:43

Declan:

Maybe the Markle Foundation will take on the role of nonprofit homeland
security surveillance snitch . . . .

Anon.



http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0405/042905nj1.htm

DHS chief floats idea of collecting private citizens' information

By Siobhan Gorman, National Journal
Call it Total Information Awareness, homeland-style.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff this week floated an idea
to start a nonprofit group that would collect information on private
citizens, flag suspicious activity, and send names of suspicious people
to his department.

The idea, which Chertoff tossed out at an April 27 meeting with
security-industry officials, is reminiscent of the Defense Department's
now-dead Total Information Awareness program that sought to sift though
heaps of foreign intelligence information to root out potential
terrorist activity.

According to one techie who attended the April 27 meeting, Chertoff
told the group, "Maybe we can create a nonprofit and track people's
activities, and an algorithm could red-flag individuals. Then, the
nonprofit could give us the names."

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