Lunchtime Listen: Future Crimes
Lunchtime Listen: Book Discussion on Future Crimes, C-SPAN, Book-TV (February 25, 2015). Marc Goodman talks about his book, Future crimes: Everything is connected, everyone is vulnerable, and what we can do about it (New York : Doubleday, 2015), about how criminals, corporations, and governments use technology to disrupt the lives of people around the world. […]
Data and Goliath
If you don’t keep up with privacy issues, this is the book you should read to catch up. Data and Goliath : the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier, New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] ©2015. And here are a couple of quick overviews of […]
The Rise of the Chief Data Officer
More and more federal government agencies are getting a “chief data officer” (CDO). NextGov interviewed five recently appointed agency CDOs. These are very brief overviews of the vast amount of data being managed by the government (the CDO for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notes that they are adding about a billion records […]
Administration sets record for withholding government files
The Obama administration set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press. The analysis of new FOIA data released by U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, covered all requests […]
Government Web Sites Analytics
The web site analytics.usa.gov, which is run by the General Services Administration, provides real time web site analytics for a selection of federal government web sites. From “about this site”: This data provides a window into how people are interacting with the government online. The data comes from a unified Google Analytics account for U.S. […]