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LawFare:”What is “executive privilege”? In the specific context of information disputes between the executive branch and Congress, the Supreme Court has never addressed—let alone answered—that question. Nevertheless, as the Trump administration repeatedly relies on that constitutional doctrine to reject demands for information and testimony, the question has been at the forefront of a spate of …
The New York Times – The United States is virtually the only developed nation without a comprehensive consumer data protection law and an independent agency to enforce it – “Why are Americans protected from hazardous laptops, fitness trackers and smartphones — but not when hazardous apps on our devices expose and exploit our personal information? …
R Street – Kathryn Waldron, Resident Fellow, National Security & Cybersecurity – Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity – A Partial Annotated Bibliography – PDF In the field of cybersecurity, there is no well-defined system that is capable of measuring cybersecurity in an objective, quantifiable, and comparative manner. In light of this, the R Street Institute National …
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Preservation in the Age of Shared Print and Withdrawal Projects, Zachary Maiorana, Ian Bogus, Mary Miller, Jacob Nadal, Katie Risseeuw, Jennifer Hain Teper, C&RL Vol 80, No 7 (2019) > Maiorana – “This paper’s review of current issues in shared print retention and preservation identifies such shared issues as …
Lifewire: “Avoid spam using a disposable email address services. When you give websites and new contacts a disposable email address instead of your real one, you can selectively disable the disposable address as soon as you get spam through it, while continuing to use all your other aliases. All disposable email address services provide this …
The New York Times: “When Donald Trump entered office, Twitter was a political tool that had helped get him elected and a digital howitzer that he relished firing. The Times examined how, in the years since, he has fully integrated the social media platform into the very fabric of his administration…Early on, top aides wanted …
Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed – “Consider a forest: One notices the trunks, of course, and the canopy. If a few roots project artfully above the soil and fallen leaves, one notices those too, but with little thought for a matrix that may spread as deep and wide as the branches above. Fungi …
Washington Post – “Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the Internet could snoop on us — no. We’ve sunk even lower. There’s a tactic spreading across the Web named after treatment usually reserved for criminals: fingerprinting. At least a third of the 500 sites Americans visit most often …
“BuzzFeed News sued the US government to see all the work that Mueller’s team kept secret. We have published the first installment, with revelations about the Ukraine conspiracy theory, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, and more… In response to a court order, the Justice Department released the first installment of documents: hundreds of pages of summaries …
