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Total Information Awareness just changed its name

TIA Lives On, By Shane Harris, National Journal, Feb. 23, 2006.

A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens.

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