Cradle of Surveillance
... experience that they tried to copy the model. The mechanism was named Total Information Awareness and supervised by the NSA with a view toward establishing a full-fledged intelligence weapon targeted againse terrorists. The test run included collecting personal data all across the U.S.. The experience failed when Snowden made the NSA’s plans public. Thus the American version of RAHS never saw daylight. Security vs privacy — unsolvable riddle Even though many Asian countries have questionable records regarding human rights, Singapore can defend its abuse of the individual right to privacy by showing great achievements on almost every statistical datasheet ...