Month: May 2014
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Pentagon Study Finds 50% Increase in Reports of Military Sexual Assaults
from nytimes.com: A Pentagon study released Thursday showed a sharp increase last year in reports of rapes and sexual assault — they were up by 50 percent — but the study immediately came under fire for what critics said were significant limitations. White House and Defense Department officials characterized the much-anticipated study as a welcome…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode192 – India Elections, Superbugs Spreading, Operation Choke Point
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode192 – India Elections, Superbugs Spreading, Operation Choke Point Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: India’s Election Is Biggest Voting Event In the World A Bigger-Than-Ever Reason…
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Cell Phone Privacy: Justices Confront a New World Order
from pulse.ncpolicywatch.org: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court — the youngest of whom is 54 — confronted their own technological limits yesterday and struggled with creating new parameters for the right to privacy in a world where a person’s whole life can be documented on a cell phone… The justices’ questions themselves revealed varying…
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New Kenya Law Legalizes Polygamy; Women’s Group Applauds It
from cnn.com: A new law that went into effect in Kenya this week makes it legal for a man to marry as many women as he wants. And a leading women’s group is applauding it. President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the polygamy measure into law Tuesday, formally recognizing what has long been a cultural practice in…
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Are You Ready for a Government Issued Driver’s License for the Internet?
from govtech.com: Government is raising its expectations. While it hasn’t been uncommon in the past for governments to consider money wasted by fraud, mismanagement or inefficiency as an expense of doing business, times are changing. New technologies are preventing such waste and initiating cultural change in the public sector. At the Florida Department of Children…