Monthly archives: December, 2015

Google hardware and software monitoring millions of students in classrooms

Washington Post: “In public classrooms across the country, the corporate name that is fast becoming as common as pencils and erasers is Google. More than half of K-12 laptops or tablets purchased by U.S. schools in the third quarter were Chromebooks, cheap laptops that run Google software. Beyond its famed Web search, the company freely …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, Education, EU Data Protection, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Distrust in Dependence: The Ancient Challenge of Superior-Subordinate Relations

Starbuck, William H. and Rindova, Violina P., Distrust in Dependence: The Ancient Challenge of Superior-Subordinate Relations (1997). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2708621 “The oldest surviving advice about management practices concerns leaders’ deceptions of followers. Tension-filled, distrustful relations between leaders and followers pervade the ancient texts. Drawing on the oldest surviving documents, this chapter reviews …

Subjects: Economy, Knowledge Management

Database comprising 191 million voter records made publicaly available

CSO Online – “The database contains a voter’s full name (first, middle, last), their home address, mailing address, a unique voter ID, state voter ID, gender, date of birth, date of registration, phone number, a yes/no field for if the number is on the national do-not-call list, political affiliation, and a detailed voting history since …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, ID Theft, Knowledge Management, Legislation, Privacy

Lack of broadband can be a key obstacle, especially for job seekers

“People without broadband at home can face substantial challenges navigating key life events, with difficulties looking for work or applying for a job among the most prominent. Despite a number of state and federal initiatives promoting increased broadband adoption, a significant share of U.S. adults (33%) say that they still do not subscribe to high-speed …

Subjects: Economy, Internet

Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress

Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress. Ronald O’Rourke, Coordinator Specialist in Naval Affairs. December 21, 2015. “The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region’s future. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, is an Arctic …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Economy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research, Transportation

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services: Background and Issues for Congress

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services: Background and Issues for Congress, Kristy N. Kamarck, Analyst in Military Manpower. December 23, 2015. “Diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity are three terms that are often used interchangeably; however, there are some differences in how they are interpreted and applied between the Department of Defense (DOD) …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents

Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2007 – 2014

Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2007-2014, Catherine A. Theohary, Specialist in National Security Policy and Information Operations. December 21, 2015. “This report provides Congress with official, unclassified, quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the preceding eight calendar years for use in its policy …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, Economy, Government Documents

New on LLRX – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide

Via LLRX.com – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide.  Sabrina I. Pacifici’s comprehensive current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a selected but wide range of reliable, topical, predominantly free websites and resources. The goal is to support an effective research process to search, discover, access, monitor, analyze and review current and historical data, news, …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Patent and Trademark

Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon

“The Dissent project is a research collaboration between Yale University and UT Austin to create a powerful, practical anonymous group communication system offering strong, provable security guarantees with reasonable efficiency. Dissent’s technical approach differs in two fundamental ways from the traditional relay-based approaches used by systems such as Tor: Dissent builds on dining cryptographers and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy