UPDATE: Who’s the Boss at the CFPB? – Valerie C. Brannon Legislative Attorney Jared P. Cole Legislative Attorney. January 11, 2018. “Update: On January 10, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied Leandra English’s request for a preliminary injunction, ruling that the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (Vacancies Act) authorized the President to… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2018
Law, Metaphor and the Encrypted Machine
Gill, Lex, Law, Metaphor and the Encrypted Machine (2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2933269 – “The metaphors we use to imagine, describe and regulate new technologies have profound legal implications. This paper offers a critical examination of the metaphors we choose to describe encryption technology in particular, and aims to uncover some of the normative and legal… Continue Reading
U.S. Army Concept for Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations 2025-2040
The U.S. Army Concept for Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations 2025-2040, CRS report via FAS. “TRADOC Pamphlet 525-8- 6, The U.S. Army Concept for Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations expands on the ideas presented in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3- 1, The U.S. Army Operating Concept: Win in a Complex World (AOC). This document describes how the… Continue Reading
The Case Against Eating Fish
The Walrus – The Case Against Eating Fish As a biologist, I know what can happen to seafood before it ends up on our plates. That’s why it’s not on mine “…But eating mislabelled fish can make you ill. Seafood is delicate; each species has a specific temperature range at which it can be stored,… Continue Reading
Firing Line archives now available on YouTube
Full-length episodes of Firing Line, the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host, William F. Buckley, Jr., are now available on YouTube, via the Hoover Institution Archives. Continue Reading
2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market
Thomson Reuters: “The market for law firm services is being transformed — by clients, by law firms that ‘get it,’ and by alternative service providers — and that pace of change in this transformative process is accelerating.” “This statement sets the premise found in the 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market just… Continue Reading
Visualizing Unequal Distribution of Gun Violence in the US
The Guardian: “The map of America’s gun violence epidemic can seem overwhelming. There were more than 13,000 gun homicides in the US in 2015, across nearly 3,500 cities and towns. But the toll of this gun violence was not distributed equally. Half of America’s gun homicides in 2015 were clustered in just 127 cities and… Continue Reading
Martin Luther King’s entire FBI file as posted by the original Memory Hole
Russ Kick – “The existence of MLK’s full file had been known in certain circles; many university libraries have it on microform/microfiche, and it’s been used as source material for numerous books through the years. So in 2008, I filed a FOIA request specifically asking for the entire thing on PDF. And I got it.… Continue Reading
Statement to Congress: Oppose Proposals To End Independent Federal Reserve Funding
Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) sent a statement to the House Financial Services Committee regarding proposals to end independent funding for Federal Reserve bank regulation and supervision. “On behalf of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), we are writing to stateour opposition to legislative proposals that would end independent funding for Federal Reserve supervision and regulation… Continue Reading
9 Places to find data on the environment
Data Drive Journalism: “What is the best way of reporting on data related to the environment? Where do you find the data in the first place? How do you make it relatable to the public and which challenges do you face along the way? Last October, seven experts got together on the Data Journalism Awards Slack team on… Continue Reading
GAO – Agencies Need to Involve Chief Information Officers in Reviewing Billions of Dollars in Acquisitions
Information Technology: Agencies Need to Involve Chief Information Officers in Reviewing Billions of Dollars in Acquisitions GAO-18-42: Published: Jan 10, 2018. Publicly Released: Jan 10, 2018. “Most of the 22 selected agencies did not identify all of their information technology (IT) contracts. The selected agencies identified 78,249 IT-related contracts, to which they obligated $14.7 billion… Continue Reading
How Climate Change Web Content is Being Censored Under the Trump Administration
“On January 10, 2018 the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) [released] Changing the Digital Climate: How Climate Change Web Content is Being Censored Under the Trump Administration, the third installment of EDGI’s series of reports evaluating the environmental impacts of the first year of the Trump administration. Changing the Digital Climate draws on the… Continue Reading
