Day archives: May 27th, 2019

Center on National Security and the Law Launches Online, Searchable Database of Foreign Intelligence Law Collection

“On May 23, Georgetown Law’s Center on National Security and the Law launched the Foreign Intelligence Law Collection — a publicly available, online searchable database of all declassified and redacted U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and Court of Review opinions; all Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) statutes; legislative history; associated regulations, guidelines, executive orders, and …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Legal Research

The Digital Public Library of America has re-released the Mueller Report as a well-formatted ebook instead of a crappy PDF

BoingBoing: “Back in April, Andrew Albanese from Publishers Weekly wrote a column deploring the abysmal formatting in the DoJ’s release of the Mueller Report, and publicly requesting that the Digital Public Library of America produce well-formatted ebook editions, which they have now done! Albanese writes, To me, this is an important development, because with the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

MegaPixels – an art and research project investigating the ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of face recognition datasets created “in the wild

“MegaPixels is an art and research project first launched in 2017 for an installation at Tactical Technology Collective’s GlassRoom about face recognition datasets. In 2018 MegaPixels was extended to cover pedestrian analysis datasets for a commission by Elevate Arts festival in Austria. Since then MegaPixels has evolved into a large-scale interrogation of hundreds of publicly-available …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: stories behind classic portraits

The Guardian – “Past images are presented here in extracts from a book by Rosamund Kidman Cox, published by the Natural History Museum”

Subjects: Environmental Law

Survey of Law Library Plans for Print Collections

Via Library Boy: Primary Research Group, a New York-based publisher of research reports and surveys about law libraries, is surveying law libraries in the USA and Canada about their plans for their print materials collections. “Survey data is aggregated and respondents are not identified in open ended questions unless they identify themselves. We do encourage …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Louisiana State Univ will terminate comprehensive subscription deal with Elsevier

Inside Higher Education: “Citing unsustainable price increases, leaders at Louisiana State University have decided to walk away from their comprehensive subscription deal with Elsevier. Louisiana State University will terminate its “big deal” with publisher Elsevier at the end of this year, joining the growing list of U.S. institutions that have recently decided not to renew …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Libraries

EPA wants to triple level of rocket fuel chemical allowed in drinking water

Think Progress – “The Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to raise the threshold for a chemical found in rocket fuel to triple the previous limit allowed in drinking water supplies. This is the first new drinking water rule introduced by the agency since the George W. Bush administration. In the EPA’s latest move to …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

X Marks the Spot Where the Personal Information is Stored

X Marks the Spot Where the Personal Information is Stored: Avoiding Common Mistakes in Data Mapping – “With new global privacy laws requiring consumer access to specific pieces of personal information and documentation of processing generally, organizations are now finding themselves having to go on treasure hunts for buried personal information within the company. Between …

Subjects: EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Legislative Purpose and Adviser Immunity in Congressional Investigations

CRS – Legislative Purpose and Adviser Immunity in Congressional Investigations May 24, 2019: “The Trump Administration has recently questioned the legal validity of numerous investigative demands made by House committees. These objections have been based on various grounds, but two specific arguments will be addressed in this Sidebar. First, the President and other Administration officials …

Subjects: Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

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