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===Articles & Commentary===*Mark Clayton, [http[category:national security]][[category://wwwGeorge W.csmonitor.com/2006/0209/p01s02-uspo.html "US plans massive data sweep. Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?"Bush]] ''Christian Science Monitor'', February 9, 2006.*rktect, [http[Category://hcmCivil liberties (U.dailykosS.com/storyonly/2006/2/9/6138/72375 "Breaking- White House Gives Details on Surveillance,")]] ''Daily Kos'', February 9, 2006.
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"But ADVISE and related DHS technologies aim to do much more, according to [[Joseph Kielman]], manager of the TVTA portfolio. The key is not merely to identify terrorists, or sift for key words, but to identify critical patterns in data that illumine their motives and intentions, he wrote in a presentation at a November conference in Richland, Wash.," Clayton wrote.
==How ADVISE Worksworks==
According to the [http://csmr.ca.sandia.gov/~tgkolda/pubs/DSW2004_LoRes.pdf "Data Sciences Technology for Homeland Security Information Management and Knowledge Discovery"] Report of the DHS Workshop on Data Sciences
conducted September 22-23, 2004, which was jointly released in January 2005 by [[Sandia National Laboratories]] and [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]:
*"Several systems are built on top of the ADVISE architecture ... including the [[Threat Vulnerability Information System]] (TVIS) for the Information Analysis (IA) organization, the [[Regional Threat Analysis System]] (RTAS) for Border and Transportation Security (BTS), and the [[Biodefense Knowledge Center]] (BKC) for the [[National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center]] (NBACC)."
==Resources and articles=====Related SourceWatch Resourcesarticles===*[[Bush administration warrantless wiretapping]]
*[[domestic spying]]
*[[George W. Bush's domestic spying]]
*[[Government Information Awareness]]
*[[Information Awareness Office]] (IAO) at [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] (DARPA)
*[[Intelligence Community]]
*[[internet surveillance]]
*[[National Security Branch Analysis Center]]
*[[Novel Intelligence from Massive Data]] (NIMD)
*[[Office of Net Assessment]]
*[[System to Assess Risk (STAR)]]
*[[TALON]]
*[[Topsail]]
*[[Total Information Awareness]] (TIA)
===External articles=======2002====*John Markoff, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F05EFD61431F93AA35752C1A9649C8B63 "Threats and Responses: Intelligence; Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans,"] ''New York Times'', November 9, 2002: "'This could be the perfect storm for civil liberties in America,' said Marc Rotenberg, director of the [[Electronic Privacy Information Center]] in Washington 'The vehicle is the Homeland Security Act, the technology is Darpa and the agency is the F.B.I. The outcome is a system of national surveillance of the American public.'" ====2003====*Farhad Manjoo, [http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/01/29/tia_privacy/index_np.html "Total Information Awareness: Down, but not out. Congress may have put the brakes on the most ambitious government surveillance program ever. But for citizens worried about their privacy, TIA still means trouble,"] ''Salon'', January 28, 2003: 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."*Declan McCullagh, [http://news.com.com/Pentagon+spy+database+funding+revealed/2100-1028_3-990497.html "Pentagon spy database funding revealed,"] C|Net News, February 27, 2003. Includes information on contractors and programs.*[http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/20031003_comments.php "Total/Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA): Is It Truly Dead? EFF: It's Too Early to Tell,"] Electronic Privacy Information Center, October 2003. ====2004====*George Cahlink, [http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=28630&printerfriendlyVers=1& "Security agency doubled procurement spending in four years,"] ''GovExec.com'', June 1, 2004. ====2005====*Ted Rall, [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1228-29.htm "The Return of Total Information Awareness - Bush Asserts Dictatorial 'Inherent' Powers,"] ''Ted Rall'' (''Common Dreams''), December 28, 2005. ====2006====*William A. Arkin, [http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/01/nsa_expands_its.html "NSA Expands, Centralizes Domestic Spying,"] ''Washington Post'', January 30, 2006.*Mark Clayton, [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0209/p01s02-uspo.html "US plans massive data sweep. Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?"] ''Christian Science Monitor'', February 9, 2006.*rktect, [http://hcm.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/9/6138/72375 "Breaking- White House Gives Details on Surveillance,"] ''Daily Kos'', February 9, 2006. ====2007====*Ryan Singel, [http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/dhs-data-mining.html "DHS Data Mining Program Suspended After Evading Privacy Review, Audit Finds,"] ''WIRED'' Blog, August 20, 2007. ===External Linksresources=======U.S. Government Documents====*[http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31730.pdf "Privacy: Total Information Awareness Programs and Related Information Access, Collection, and Protection Laws"] prepared by Gina Marie Stevens, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division, [[Congressional Research Service]], March 21, 2003 (updated).
*[http://csmr.ca.sandia.gov/~tgkolda/pubs/DSW2004_LoRes.pdf "Data Sciences Technology for Homeland Security Information Management and Knowledge Discovery,"] Report of the DHS Workshop on Data Sciences, September 22-23, 2004, Jointly released by Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (unlimited release; 41-page pdf printed January 2005). "Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement" is on page 7 (pdf page 17).
*Robert Burleson, [http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/publications/gss2005/gss2005_5484.pdf "Image to Insight in a Counterterrorism Context,"] Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2005 (23-page pdf).
:*FY 2006 Plan: "A National Homeland Security Support System (NH3S) will be created using the ADVISE architecture and providing quantitative risk analysis and decision support capabilities."
