TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
John PoindexterI really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
John PoindexterNobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
John PoindexterYou accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
John Poindexter