Information Collection, Analysis, and Sharing for Law Enforcement and Counterterrrorism (2004)
URL: <doj.information-sharing.info>
OJP/NIH Preliminary Concept Paper:
Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age (www.PLENSIA.org), "Concept Paper: A Proposal to Examine the Policy and Legal Implications of DOJ Information Collection, Analysis, and Sharting Initiatives for Law Enforcement and Counterterrrorism," U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice Grant Proposal (Dec. 1, 2004) (PROPOSAL REJECTED 3/05) [download proposal PDF]
Related background material:
Book chapter:
Kim Taipale, "Designing Technical Systems to Support Policy: Enterprise Architecture, Policy Appliances, and Civil Liberties," [Introduction] in "Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter Terrorism" (Robert Popp and John Yen, eds., IEEE Press, forthcoming 2005). See also Policy Alliance Reference Model.
Journal Articles:
K. A. Taipale, "Technology, Security and Privacy: The Fear of Frankenstein, the Mythology of Privacy and the Lessons of King Ludd," 7 Yale J. L. & Tech. 123; 9 Int'l J. Comm. L. & Pol'y 8 (Dec. 2004).
K. A. Taipale, "Data Mining and Domestic Security: Connecting the Dots to Make Sense of Data," 5 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 2 (Dec. 2003) [executive summary PDF]
PPT Presentations:
"Information Management and Policy in the Intelligence Enterprise," presented at Old HQ Bldg, McLean, VA (Apr. 12, 2005) [presentation materials]
"Information as Warfare: Disrupting Terrorist Networks" at the Yale Information Society Project, "Global Flow of Information" Conference, Yale Law School (Apr. 1-3, 2005). [abstract and presentation slides]
"Biometrics and Information Sharing" presented at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board conference on Technology, Policy, and Cultural Dimensions of Biometric Systems, The National Academies, Washington, DC, Mar. 15-16, 2005. [presentation materials]
"Public Safety vs. Personal Privacy: The Case For and Against Secure Flight" presented at the InfoSecurity 2004 conference in New York on Dec. 8, 2004. [presentation materials]
"Counterterrorism technology and privacy," presented at the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security conference on "National Security Law in a Changed World: The Fourteenth Annual Review of the Field," in Arlington, VA on Nov. 18-19, 2004. [presentation materials]
"Implementing EO 13356: Standardizing Terror Data, " presented at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Roundtable, "How Should the U.S. Implement Information Sharing? A Discussion on the Executive Order Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information," Arlington, VA (Nov. 9, 2004) [presentation materials]
"Technology as a Tool to Protect Civil Liberties: Enterprise Architecture and Civil Liberties," presented at the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security Counterterrorism Technology and Privacy Conference at Cantigny, IL, Jun. 25, 2005 [presentation materials]
"Technology, Security, and Anonymity: Redefining the Problem Statement," presented at the WWICS/AAAS/ABA Roundtable "Can Anonymity Survive in Post-9/11 Society," Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC (May 4, 2004) [presentation material]
"Technology, Security, and Privacy: Designing Technical Features to Support Policy," presented at the NSF Science and Technology Center for Discrete & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (Apr. 15, 2004) [presentation materials]
"Technology, Security and Privacy: The Fear of Frankenstein, the Mythology of Privacy and the Lessons of King Ludd," presented at the Yale Law School CyberCrime and Digital Law Enforcement Conference (Mar. 2004) [presentation materials]
"Identification Systems and Domestic Security: Who's Who in Whoville" presented at "The Politics and Law of Identity and Identification in the Context of the War on Terror," The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and The Heritage Foundation, Arlington, VA (Jan. 28, 2004) [presentation materials]
"Reflections on the Second Markle Foundation Report: Creating a Trusted Information Network for Homeland Security," presented at "A Critique of the Markle Report on Trusted Information Networks for Homeland Security," The Heritage Foundation and The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC (Dec. 11, 2003) [presentation materials]
"Technology, Security and Privacy," Washington DC: presented at "Enabling New Information Technologies in the War on Terrorism," The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Roundtable Discussion, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Capital Hill, Washington, DC (Dec. 2, 2003) [presentation materials]
Written Statements:
"Not Issuing Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens is Bad for National Security," PLENSIA 12/2004. [Full statement]
"Who's Who in Whoville? Congress should not rush to legislate a massive government identity surveillance system under the press of a politically expedient deadline without considering alternatives that can meet legitimate law enforcement and national security needs while still protecting privacy," PLENSIA conference October 29, 2005. [Full Statement]
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About the Center for Advanced Studies:
The Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy is a private, non-partisan research and advisory organization focused on information, technology and national security policy and related issues.
The Center seeks to inform and influence national and international policy- and decision-makers in both the public and private sectors by providing sound, objective analysis and advice, in particular by identifying and articulating issues that lie at the intersection of technologically enabled change and existing practice in policy, law and industry.
In addition to its independent research activities and public engagements [see news and publications], the Center provides select advisory services to policy-makers in government and decision-makers in the private sector [see advisory services].
The Center is also a partner in the Global Information Society Project, a joint research effort of the Center and the World Policy Institute. The Global Information Society Project has research programs in Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age, Telecommunications and Spectrum Policy, Information Operations, Information Assurance and Operational Resilience, Environment and Energy Policy, and Intellectual Property and Trade, among others [see research programs].
Areas of Focus:
Information Policy: National and domestic security and civil liberties (including privacy), cybersecurity and computer crime, telecommunications and spectrum, intellectual property, innovation and antitrust, internet and free speech. Information policy and free trade, globalization and global security, international jurisdiction, internet governance. Information management, institutional and organizational architecture and business process engineering.
Enabling Technologies: Data aggregation, data integration, data fusion, data analysis, data mining, artificial intelligence, decision support, distributed networks, enterprise architecture, distributed computing, wireless communication, remote sensing, identification, authentication, network and computer security, biometrics, cryptography, rule-based processing, digital rights management, knowledge management.
Security Applications: Foreign intelligence, defense intelligence, counter intelligence, domestic intelligence, law enforcement, counter terrorism, regulatory compliance, corporate and enterprise security, corporate intelligence, competitive intelligence, systems security, cybersecurity, information security, communication security, information assurance, information warfare, information operations, netcentric strategy, environmental monitoring, international relations and global security.
Related Areas of Research Interest: Technology innovation and adoption, social change, knowledge-creation, deciscion-making, risk-analysis, risk-management, deviation analysis, pedagogy, communications, media analysis, information economics, control theory, network theory, emergence, complexity, history of technology, and cultural history.