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By Gail Kent • July 26, 2014 at 3:08 am
It’s not straightforward being a law enforcement officer in the UK in 2014. I often think of how different my working existence is to that of my great-grandfather, also in law enforcement, but working in a small Scottish village in the late 19th Century. The highlight of Constable Taylor’s 30-year career was once catching a burglar. Read more » about Reflections on the UK's DRIP Act
By Kate Westmoreland • July 24, 2014 at 6:11 pm
By Giancarlo Frosio • July 22, 2014 at 6:35 am
By Bolin Zhang • July 15, 2014 at 11:09 pm
By Brian Hayden Pascal • July 10, 2014 at 12:56 pm
There's an old joke that goes like this: “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.” Like most old jokes, it's built around a kernel of truth. If you cram enough training in mathematics and science into a person's brain, it changes not just how they think, but how they see the world. It's hard to overstate just how deep this shift goes, but it's akin to the “overview effect” experienced by astronauts during spaceflight, in which suddenly seeing the planet from a different perspective induces a profound sense of oneness and connection. But for engineers and other types of data scientists, I suspect that the effect goes in the opposite direction. It seems like there's an inclination among some who work with large bodies of data, be they NSA cryptologists or Facebook researchers, to view their data as something separate from the individual citizens and consumers that those data points represent. And I believe that this disconnection goes a long way towards explaining the tensions in the modern big data world. Read more » about Big Data and the Perceptual Divide
By David Levine • July 10, 2014 at 9:22 am
Yesterday my Elon Law colleague Enrique Armijo, who writes about the application of the First Amendment to new technologies, filed a comment in the FCC's net neutrality proceeding. As CIS blog readers know, the FCC has shown interest in using its preemption authority to remove barriers to municipalities establishing their own broadband services to compete with private ISPs. Read more » about Net Neutrality and the First Amendment Rights of Users of Government-Run Networks
By Giancarlo Frosio • July 7, 2014 at 6:15 am
By Jennifer Granick • July 2, 2014 at 1:18 pm
TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough.
Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technologically complicated government surveillance program operating under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act Read more » about Did PCLOB Answer My Eight Questions About Section 702?
By Giancarlo Frosio • July 1, 2014 at 7:13 am
Recently, the United Sates Supreme Court decided American Broadcasting Cos. Read more » about The Supreme Court Finds Aereo a Direct Infringer, Justice Brandeis (and Scalia) Dissent
By Richard Forno • July 1, 2014 at 4:44 am
For those following or researching the NSA disclosures by Edward Snowden (or privacy issues in general) this interactive chart will be a useful tool both for reference and in educating others about the scope of the surveillance situation at the moment -- such that we know about, obviously. Read more » about NSA Revelations At-A-Glance
