Editing Total Information Awareness (section)

== Criticism ==
Critics allege that the program could be abused by government authorities as part of their practice of [[mass surveillance in the United States]]. In an [[op-ed]] for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[William Safire]] called it "the supersnoop's dream: a Total Information Awareness about every U.S. citizen".<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news|last=WILLIAM SAFIRE|title=You Are a Suspect|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/you-are-a-suspect.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=September 20, 2013|date=November 14, 2002}}</ref>

[[Hans Mark]], a former director of defense research and engineering at the [[University of Texas]], called it a "dishonest misuse of [[DARPA]]".<ref name=dapra1>{{cite journal|last=Weinberger|first=Sharon|title=Defence research: Still in the lead?|journal=Nature|volume=451|issue=7177|publisher=[[Nature Publishing Group]]|pages=390–393|doi=10.1038/451390a|pmid=18216826|bibcode=2008Natur.451..390W|date=24 January 2008|quote=Poindexter and his office proved to be more polarizing than expected; its Total Information Awareness programme (later changed to Terrorism Information Awareness), which aimed to sift through huge amounts of data to track terrorists, was attacked on privacy grounds, and Congress eventually cancelled it. "That was a dishonest misuse of DARPA," says Hans Mark, a former director of defense research and engineering now at the University of Texas at Austin.|doi-access=free}}</ref>

The [[American Civil Liberties Union]] launched a campaign to terminate TIA's implementation, claiming that it would "kill privacy in America" because "every aspect of our lives would be catalogued".<ref>{{cite web|title=Q&A on the Pentagon's "Total Information Awareness" Program|url=https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/qa-pentagons-total-information-awareness-program|publisher=[[American Civil Liberties Union]]|access-date=19 December 2013|date=April 20, 2003}}</ref> The ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' criticized the program for "Fighting terror by terrifying U.S. citizens".<ref>{{cite news|author=ROB MORSE|title=Fighting terror by terrifying U.S. citizens|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fighting-terror-by-terrifying-U-S-citizens-2752084.php|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle ]]|access-date=21 December 2013|date=November 20, 2002}}</ref>

Still, in 2013 former [[Director of National Intelligence]] [[James Clapper]] lied about a massive data collection on US citizens and others.<ref name="Viking">{{cite book |last1=Clapper |first1=James R,. |title=Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From A Life In Intelligence |date= 2018|publisher= Viking |location= New York |isbn= 9780525558651 |pages= 226 |edition=ebook}}</ref> [[Edward Snowden]] said that because of Clapper's lie he lost hope to change things formally.<ref name="Viking"/>