FC: Katherine Strandburg on PhD dissertations, Total Info Awareness

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 13:12:37 -0500
From: "Katherine Strandburg" <kstrandb () depaul edu>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: Re: FC: "The Department of Homeland Security ate my dissertation..."

Does it occur to anyone that this is just the argument against TIA 
inverted?  As private citizens, we're all concerned about what happens when 
the government puts together a bunch of publicly availalbe information, 
because we intuitively feel that the whole is more than the sum of its 
parts.  Now the government is saying the same thing, isn't it?  As someone 
who is no fan of TIA and is a fan of folks using public information in 
their PhD dissertations, I find the analogy thought-provoking.

Katherine J. Strandburg
Assistant Professor of Law
DePaul College of Law
(312) 362-8536
kstrandb () depaul edu

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:22:08 -0400 (EDT)
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Declan --

The bigger question raised by this work is that national security should
be as open as possible, given that security experts who have no vested
interest in political careers need to be able to vet it.  Citizens should
be able to map police lookout points, record the movements of troops
stationed in cities, and do whatever else it takes to have a robust
conversation about how to improve security.

- Lucas Gonze




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