Mystery AtlasTotal Information Awareness
A DARPA surveillance research programme launched in 2002 to aggregate personal data, financial, medical, and communications records, into a single searchable system to detect terrorist activity; defunded by Congress in 2003 after public and press criticism.
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Organisations & Programmes
- DARPAfounded 1958
Total Information Awareness was operated by DARPA.
- COINTELPRO1956-1971
Total Information Awareness is frequently compared to COINTELPRO — Both are real, documented US government surveillance programmes exposed and shut down after public and congressional backlash.