Poindexter and others pushing Total Information Awareness did a horrible job of marketing. The logo even had an eye in a pyramid, all the better to feed conspi

Poindexter and others pushing Total Information Awareness did a horrible job of marketing. The logo even had an eye in a pyramid, all the better to feed conspiracy theorists' concerns about the Illuminati! So in a rare victory for civil libertarians that Congress wound up defunding TIA. Many of the individual projects continued forward or have since resurfaced. They just have better logos and acronyms now.