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Environmental Psychology
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Tag Archives: GAO

The Public/Private Database Industry

By gtdonovan | Published: 12.03.2009
On multiple fronts, the U.S. government is pumping up the database industry with large sums of public money. The notion that “public” government-surveillance and “private” corporate-surveillance are some how different is a useless distinction – they’re two sides of the same state-surveillance coin. First, from The Hill: This week, without much fanfare, the House is [...]
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(young) person of interest

By gtdonovan | Published: 04.07.2008
What would it look like if we were to situate young people in the growing semantic web? A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at some of the data mining programs currently underway at the Department of Homeland Security. In their report, GAO offer a “Typical Semantic Graph” which [...]
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congressional oversight

By gtdonovan | Published: 03.06.2008
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, possibly illegal surveillance [...]
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