Another sign of growing state interest in the semantic web… According to a recent article in the washington post, "the FBI has created a network of links between the nation's largest telephone and Internet firms and about 40 FBI offices and Quantico" as part of their Digital Collection System (also ...
via secrecy news:
The Government Accountability Office maintains an office at the National Security Agency but it remains unused since no one in Congress has asked GAO to perform any oversight of the Agency, the head of GAO disclosed last week.
Despite multi-billion dollar acquisition failures at NSA and the Agency’s controversial, ...
"The line between state and society is not the perimeter of an intrinsic entity that can be thought of as a freestanding object or actor. It is a line drawn internally, within the network of institutional mechanisms through which a certain social and political order is maintained."
:: sent wirelessly via ...
Its official - txt space is private space. From the ny times:
Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program...
legal experts said private ...
"You know the feeling" the empathic male voiceover announces, "you can't take care of business the way others do." You can’t, because you have what’s called “Connectile Dysfunction” or “CD” which the voiceover explains as “a condition caused by inadequate broadband coverage." The denizens of New Orleans know this ...
I Just read through the Center on Education Policy's "Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era" report. The report examines the effect that the No Child Left Behind act has had on curriculum and instructional time in public education in the 5 years since it was ...
