Facebook TIA.

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First here was TIA. Then there was Facebook? Before there was Zuckerberg there was Poindexter?

TIA = Total Information Awareness!

Data mining courtesy Facebook? USA government does the end-run?

"The Military Origins of Facebook"

"Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and 'pre-crime' apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network."

That "controversial DARPA program Total Information Awareness [TIA]. Abandoned as too controversial.

WHEN TIA DIED FACEBOOKWAS BORN? CONSIDER:

"On February 4, 2004, what is now the world’s largest social network, Facebook, launched its website and quickly rose to the top of the social media roost, leaving other social media companies of the era in the dust."

TIA as originally conceived as a response to 9/11 and WTC. Data mining and computer algorithms which would allow a group of two dozen terrorists to be picked out and identified from among the residents of a city with a population of a million persons. Given enough data this COULD BE DONE!

Where Poindexter failed,  Zuckerberg did not?

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