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Small Data Surveillance V. Big Data Cybersurveillance, Margaret Hu
Small Data Surveillance V. Big Data Cybersurveillance, Margaret Hu
Pepperdine Law Review
This Article highlights some of the critical distinctions between small data surveillance and big data cybersurveillance as methods of intelligence gathering. Specifically, in the intelligence context, it appears that “collect-it-all” tools in a big data world can now potentially facilitate the construction, by the intelligence community, of other individuals' digital avatars. The digital avatar can be understood as a virtual representation of our digital selves and may serve as a potential proxy for an actual person. This construction may be enabled through processes such as the data fusion of biometric and biographic data, or the digital data fusion of the …
Who Is Reading Whom Now: Privacy In Education From Books To Moocs, Jules Polonetsky, Omer Tene
Who Is Reading Whom Now: Privacy In Education From Books To Moocs, Jules Polonetsky, Omer Tene
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article is the most comprehensive study to date of the policy issues and privacy concerns arising from the surge of ed tech innovation. It surveys the burgeoning market of ed tech solutions, which range from free Android and iPhone apps to comprehensive learning management systems and digitized curricula delivered via the Internet. It discusses the deployment of big data analytics by education institutions to enhance student performance, evaluate teachers, improve education techniques, customize programs, and better leverage scarce resources to optimize education results.
This Article seeks to untangle ed tech privacy concerns from the broader policy debates surrounding standardization, …
The Dawn Of Social Intelligence (Socint), Laura K. Donohue
The Dawn Of Social Intelligence (Socint), Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
More information about citizens’ lives is recorded than ever before. Because the data is digitized, it can be accessed, analyzed, shared, and combined with other information to generate new knowledge. In a post-9/11 environment, the legal standards impeding access to such data have fallen. Simultaneously, the advent of global communications and cloud computing, along with network convergence, have expanded the scope of information available. The U.S. government has begun to collect and to analyze the associated data.
The result is the emergence of what can be termed “social intelligence” (SOCINT), which this Article defines as the collection of digital data …