Day archives: April 20th, 2015

Robots, Pirates, and the Rise of the Automated Takedown Regime

Carpou, Zoe, Robots, Pirates, and the Rise of the Automated Takedown Regime (April 6, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2591187 “The notice-and-takedown provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has become increasingly controversial, particularly with the ever-increasing use of “robo-takedown” requests — an automated procedure by which a copyright holder locates allegedly infringing content …

Subjects: Digital Rights, Domain Names, Internet, Legal Research

NOAA Builds Tool to Hold Unprecedented Amounts of Data from Studying Unprecedented Oil Spill

“This is the seventh in a series of stories over the coming weeks looking at various topics related to the response, the Natural Resource Damage Assessment science, restoration efforts, and the future of the Gulf of Mexico. APRIL 17, 2015 — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. …

Subjects: E-Government, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

DHS Data Framework – Interim Process to Address Emergent Threat

Privacy Impact Assessment for the DHS Data Framework – Interim Process to Address an Emergent Threat. DHS/ALL/PIA-051 April 15 , 2015. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to explain its plan to expedite DHS’s ability to meet a critical mission need through the use of an interim manual …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

New GAO Reports – 202 Census, Defense Inventory, DOD Acquisition Rulemaking

2020 Census: Recommended Actions Need to Be Implemented before Potential Cost Savings Can be Realized, GAO-15-546T: Published: Apr 20, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 20, 2015. Defense Inventory: Services Generally Have Reduced Excess Inventory, but Additional Actions Are Needed, GAO-15-350: Published: Apr 20, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 20, 2015. Department of Defense: Acquisition Rulemaking Practices, GAO-15-423R: …

Subjects: Defense, Government Documents

NIST Seeks Comments on De-identification Report

EPIC – “The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft report on “De-Identification of Personally Identifiable Information.” The agency is requesting comments by May 15. The NIST report reviews de-identification techniques and research, including work by EPIC Advisory Board members Cynthia Dwork and Latanya Sweeney. Last year, in response to a similar …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: data sources and statistical methodologies

Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: data sources and statistical methodologies IFC Bulletin No 39 April 2015 – 837 pages PDF. Papers in this volume were prepared for the Seventh IFC Conference held in Basel on 4-5 September 2014.  Table of Contents as follows: Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: overview of …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents