Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra answers your questions from Facebook and the White House website about all things technology, information, and transparency. June 30, 2009.
‘Remote searching’ in the UK
The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into peoples personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Unions council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of…
Deep Packet Inspection
How deep packet inspection works and concerns about how this kind of technology can be used:
Michele Bachmann and Census 2010
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on Glenn Beck explaining why she won’t fill out the entire 2010 census forms.