“The U.S. military has been investigating the use of sophisticated data mining tools to probe social media and other open sources in order to support military operations against money laundering, drug trafficking, terrorism and other threats. But the window for doing so may be closing as the social media landscape changes, according to an internal… Continue Reading
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Gartner – Smartphone Sales Grew 46.5 Percent in Second Quarter of 2013
News release: “Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 435 million units in the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 3.6 percent from the same period last year, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide smartphone sales to end users reached 225 million units, up 46.5 percent from the second quarter of 2012. Sales of… Continue Reading
Implementation monitoring of PFMIs
“Implementation monitoring of PFMIs – Level 1 assessment report: The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have started the process of monitoring implementation of the Principles for financial market infrastructures (PFMIs). This report reviews jurisdictions’ progress towards adopting the legislation and other policies that will enable them to completely… Continue Reading
AP – USPS photographs each piece of mail processed
AP – “The Postal Service takes pictures of every piece of mail processed in the United States — 160 billion last year — and keeps them on hand for up to a month.” Continue Reading
Brookings: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad
Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad: “In this report, Daniel Byman and Benjamin Wittes profile Anwar Awlaki and other suspected American terrorists who joined the jihadist cause from abroad, and they examine several distinct approaches the U.S. government can use to confront the threat of these U.S. citizen terrorist suspects.” Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Private Health Insurance, Federal Housing Administration
Private Health Insurance – The Range of Base Premiums in the Individual Market by State in January 2013, GAO-13-712R, Jul 23, 2013 Federal Housing Administration – Improving Disposition and Oversight Practices May Increase Returns on Foreclosed Property Sales, GAO-13-542, Jun 20, 2013 Continue Reading
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Renews Authority to Collect Telephony Metadata
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Renews Authority to Collect Telephony Metadata – July 19, 2013 “As indicated by a previously classified court order disclosed by the media on June 5, 2013, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorization requiring the production of certain telephony metadata under the “business records” provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA),… Continue Reading
Transforming Our Conversation of Information Architecture with Structure
Transforming Our Conversation of Information Architecture with Structure by Nathaniel Davis “Information architecture has been characterized as both an art and a science. Because there’s more evidence of the former than the latter, the academic and research community is justified in hesitating to give the practice of information architecture more attention. If you probe the… Continue Reading
White House – Why Immigration Reform Is Good For Our Economy
White House White Board: Why Immigration Reform Is Good For Our Economy,” narrated by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest Continue Reading
American Banker – Bring Back Glass-Steagall? Which Version?
Slideshow via American Banker (free to non-subscribers) – Bring Back Glass-Steagall? Which Version? See also 80 years on, Glass-Steagall staging a comeback FT.com (sub. req’d) Glass-Steagall, reanimated Continue Reading
USDA People’s Gardens Initiative and Interative Maps
“WHAT IS THE PEOPLE’S GARDEN INITIATIVE? Secretary Vilsack began the People’s Garden Initiative – named in honor of President Lincoln’s description of USDA as the “People’s Department” – in 2009 as an effort to challenge employees to create gardens at USDA facilities. It has since grown into a collaborative effort of over 700 local and… Continue Reading
Center for an Urban Future – Innovation and the City
Innovation and the City: “New York’s next mayor will need to address a number of critical challenges facing the city. This report spotlights 15 innovative policies from cities across the U.S. and around the globe that could serve as a model.” June 2013 Continue Reading
