The Defense Advanced Research Projects Area (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense set up the Total Information Awareness program in 2002, which promised to provide "total information awareness" through "large, distributed repositories" including "biometric signatures of humans" and "human network analysis and behavior modeling." Congress defunded the program in 2003.
Total Information Awareness (2002-2003)
By Tom Head, About.com Guide
The Total Information Awareness web site, which featured a logo resembling the Illuminati symbol in the upper left corner, was so audacious that some readers mistook it for political satire.
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