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On Facebook, the tables have been turned on law officers. All those social engineering techniques police investigators do to ferret out pedophiles and gang-bangers with fake profiles in social media are also being used by cop haters to gain intelligence about cops. [read more]
Sometimes it takes a black swan to spur action for improvement. The tragic events of 9/11 as well as Hurricane Katrina certainly were the black swans that spurred action for the nationwide LTE network that’s starting to take shape. [read more]
Sky News likened the email hacking case to the occasions where reporters have had to break the law (in one case buying an Uzi and in another, breaching security at Heathrow) "in the public interest" for the purposes of their investigation. [read more]
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There’s a gap between the technologies that first responders have access to in the field now – and those that are already on the market or will be available in the future [read more]
Facebook has been rolling out the new Timeline for the past several weeks. It will become mandatory by the end of the month. As with all social media, with the new Timeline comes new opportunities, new challenges and new threats (to officer safety). But first, let’s look at the opportunity. Probably the sweetest thing about the new... [read more]
Internet Access, Real-Time Communications Deliver Information Faster to Cops I’ve often mentioned in my blog posts the irony of police officers accessing social media, email and the Internet on their personal smartphones, but having to settle for decades-old communications technology while on the job. There are several reasons for this... [read more]
Government agencies at all levels are examining how to use cloud services as a means of upgrading their systems while maximizing value. Moving to cloud can allow agencies to condense sprawling IT systems, offer more mobility options and manage legacy systems. However, along with all of this convenience comes a significant security... [read more]
"A communal loss can happen in many ways. Riots and terrorist attacks and natural disasters get all the publicity, but economic forces do more damage than all of them combined." [read more]
I decided to wait for a little while before writing a post to discuss the use of social media during the recent riots that took place across England. Over a period of two weeks we have seen a move away from the initial knee jerk calls for social media to be turned off during disorder to a much more sensible position, of the industry... [read more]
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) at the Commerce Department recently held a workshop to discuss how protection of personal information can be made a key implementation element in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The meeting discussed steps that Government and industry can... [read more]
I believe many readers would agree that cyber threats are one of the more significant issues facing our nation’s businesses and governments today. Earlier this month, I attended the East/West Institute’s (EWI) Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in London. EWI is a global think tank that has organized a series of meetings to help address the... [read more]
Welcome to the the next installment in my series of social media tips. These are aimed primarily at a police audience, but hopefully applicable to a wider group of people too, especially those in the public sector. This series of posts will aim to identify some good practice and useful hints and tips for police officers and staff to... [read more]
What would society be like if there weren’t any prisons? Peaceful arcadia or hell on earth? I ask because getting rid of prisons seems to me to be where we are headed if the leftist elite who appear to preside over our criminal justice system get their way. First came the fashion for non-custodial sentencing.... [read more]
Last week, I wrote about Corridor, the State Department's new internal social networking portal. This week, I want to examine some ways that its administrators can illustrate to their leadership that their investment in Corridor is returning results. Here are the top four metrics I think they should look at:... [read more]
Elaine Sullivan2011 City Hall Fellow, San FranciscoIn the March 28th issue of "The New Yorker," I came across this paragraph in Evan Osnos' article "Aftershocks: Living with catastrophe," which had been put under the header "Letter from Japan":On the hilltop overlooking the ruined city if Rikuzentakata, Jimbo met a semi-retired man in... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...