Illegal Metadata Program Revealed in Canada
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), they don’t know the number of Canadians that were caught up in an illegal metadata program that […]
Digging Deep
We live in a data-rich world where organizations, governments and individuals can analyze anything and everything. At present, the most easily indexed material from the web […]
Digital Data Growing in the White House
Based on the priorities that President-elect Donald Trump has laid out for his first days in office, one could reasonably expect that government operations will […]
Historical Archive Digitized
Gale has launched Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 in what seems like a very timely digital archive. The collection includes […]
Copyright Process Review
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) voiced their approval of the House Judiciary Committee’s first policy proposal regarding the review of the Copyright Act. The Association […]
Scholarly Publishing Still Has Street Cred
Many critics believe that Facebook users have been influenced by “fake news” on Facebook in their election decisions. Whether you agree with them or with Mark […]
Politics and the Information Industry
The past few weeks in politics has been busy. One of the most improbable election results in modern America was the election of Donald […]
First Government Chief Information Security Officer
As unlikely as it seems, President Obama recently named Gregory Touhill, a retired Air Force brigadier general, as the United States federal government’s first […]
New Librarian of Congress is First in Many Ways
The 14th Librarian of Congress was sworn in this week. As the first woman and first African-American to hold the post, Carla Hayden will lead […]
The Future and Technology
Earlier this year at the Ireland eGovernment Summit, one self-proclaimed digital leader challenged the assumption that technology always results in society’s improvement. The Irish Independent brought […]