Noah Shachtman’s Wired article reveals plans for a huge new database project, purportedly under development, called LifeLog (from DARPA, sponsors of the Total Information Awareness System, renamed the Terrorism Awareness Information Program), comprised of information compiled “by tracking where people go and what they see.”
In an associated reference, on May 16 I posted information on a sweeping UK data mining program which bears distinct similarities to the proposed LifeLog program.
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Daily Archives: May 20, 2003
Further FOIA Exemptions for NSA
The NSA has proposed a FOIA exemption for “files that document the means by which foreign intelligence or counterintelligence is collected through technical systems.” Also via FAS, see the text of the proposed exemption, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, S. 747. From OMBWatch, “The Senate language, included in the proposed FY… Continue Reading
Total Information Awareness Becomes Total Terrorism Awareness
Big news day concerning DARPA’s Total Information Awareness Program, which according to this press release, is now called the Terrorism Awareness Information Program. This change coincides with the agency’s report to Congress delivered today, with links to associated documents as follows: Guide to the Report to Congress download Executive Summary (6 pages, 30Kb, pdf) download… Continue Reading
RSS Feeds For Summaries of Recent Supreme Court Decisions
From Thomas R. Bruce, Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: “As part of some extensive (and ongoing) renovation of our Supreme Court collection, we’ve added RSS feeds that offer summaries of recent decisions. There are two: http://supct.law.cornell.edu:8080/supct/rss/0.91/supct_today.rss Actually the less-useful of the two feeds, this one takes in decisions handed down “today” (that is,… Continue Reading
Einstein Archives Online
Released yesterday, an “itemized database of approximately 43,000 Einstein and Einstein-related archival items: writings, professional & personal correspondence, and digitized manuscripts of his scientific writings, non-scientific writing, travel diaries.” See http://www.alberteinstein.info/ Continue Reading
NY City Consumer Affairs Decisions Go Online
“The city Department of Consumer Affairs has begun posting decisions on consumer protection and licensing issues at www.citylaw.org, the Web site of New York Law School’s Center for New York City Law. More than 600 administrative law judges decisions, from January 2003 to the present, are available on the site, and the department plans to… Continue Reading
