I'm #sparkingjoy all over my studio and purging art pieces that have been with me awhile.
This is #TIA from 2005
Total Information Awareness
Original Mixed Medium Artist Trading Card
#Art 2.5" x 3.5"
Frame Size 5" x 7"
Now available in my Etsy shop
This little gem has been floating around the studio for some time.
It has the now iconic #Illuminati #Pyramid with the #AllSeeingEye straight from the program's Logo, only this one has been modified with another all seeing eye atop the big one in the pyramid, & a tentacle stretches into the scene on the sly.
It's signed with the #RBG Color Code for my name,
#4CBB17
From a #Privacy SOS article about the program... "TIA, a $240 million program, first came to public attention in a New York Times piece by John Markoff dated November 9, 2002. The article reported that through Total Information Awareness, intelligence and law enforcement officials would be given “instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions & travel documents, without a search warrant.” TIA would not just enable the government to develop “cradle to grave dossiers” on known individuals. It would also (in theory) have the ability to detect terrorists & their plots by subjecting massive troves of electronic information to #datamining techniques.
After TIA was publicly unmasked, it faced withering criticism all along a political spectrum. In the words of the right-wing libertarian Cato Institute, this “power to generate a comprehensive data profile on any US citizen” involved “the specter of the East German secret police and communist Cuba’s block watch system” (G. Healy, “Beware of Total Information Awareness,” January 20, 2003). Data mining programs that were part of DARPA’s TIA before it was de-funded by Congress have been transferred to the National Security Agency. They include:
Automated Detection, Identification and Tracking of Deceptive Terrorist Activity, developed by 21st Century Technologies, Inc. of Austin, Texas (USA Today, July 20, 2006). Research “into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks…
It goes on... #originalart