Day archives: April 5th, 2015

EU Material deprivation statistics – early results

“Eurostat disseminates early results for severe material deprivation rates so that trends in poverty levels can be tracked more closely. 2014 data are available for over half the European Union (EU) Member States, and Iceland. The coverage and the timeliness is expected to increase in the coming years. Latvia and Hungary have provided final data …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Poverty

Leaked portion of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – loss of user rights?

EFF – Maira Sutton: “A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. The latest provisions would enable multinational corporations to undermine public interest rules through an international tribunal process called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Under this process, foreign companies can challenge …

Subjects: Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

The Implementation of State Sponsored Retirement Plans

Carlin, Bruce I. and Davies, Shaun William, The Implementation of State Sponsored Retirement Plans (April 3, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2589701 “State sponsored retirement plans have been proposed and implemented to provide people with new access to defined contribution retirement opportunities. Many of these people have no other options and typically have low …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Does the Death Penalty Require Death Row? The Harm of Legislative Silence

McLeod, Marah Stith, Does the Death Penalty Require Death Row? The Harm of Legislative Silence (March 14, 2015). Ohio State Law Journal, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2589716 “This Article exposes two flawed assumptions about death row in leading scholarship and judicial opinions. The first flawed assumption is that death row is an inevitable …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research

DHS – Privacy Impact Assessment for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Privacy Impact Assessment for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection 1:1 Facial Recognition Air Entry Pilot, DHS/CBP/PIA-025. March 11, 2015. “The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is conducting the 1:1 Facial Recognition Air Entry Pilot to allow Customs and Border Protection Officers stationed at air ports of entry to use facial recognition technology as …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Privacy, Transportation

Heathcare Internet of Things

Heathcare Internet of Things – Jason Healey, Neal Pollard, and Beau Woods. “The Internet of Things (IoT) of digital, networked technology is quickly moving to the forefront of society, the global economy, and the human experience. The IoT sometimes refers to colossal, impersonal concepts like connecting electricity grids to the Internet for economic or environmental …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet