Day archives: November 2nd, 2012

EFF Launches New Transparency Project

News release: “From cell phone location tracking to the use of surveillance drones, from secret interpretations of electronic surveillance law to the expanding use of biometrics, EFF has long been at the forefront of the push for greater transparency on the government’s increasingly secretive use of new technologies. With the launch of our new Transparency …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Privacy

TRAC – DOJ Inspector General Overly Critical of EOIR Statistics

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC): “The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Justice Department has just released a report criticizing the statistics of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). Lost in the news coverage of the OIG’s report are several important points: First, in criticizing the EOIR numbers, the OIG’s report doesn’t acknowledge …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

MIT – Predicting what topics will trend on Twitter

Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office: “At the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks at MIT in November, Associate Professor Devavrat Shah and his student Stanislav Nikolov will present a new algorithm that can, with 95 percent accuracy, predict which topics will trend an average of an hour and a half before Twitter’s …

Subjects: Blogs