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Municipalities open their GIS systems to citizensOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 7 days ago (http://www.linux.com)
Category: software | Tags municipalities, open, gis, citizens, geography,
"Many public administrations already use open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to let citizens look at public geographic data trough dedicated Web sites. Others use the same software to.. read more »
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NYPD Calls On Citizens For Amateur Video EvidenceOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by MargaretM 157 days ago (http://www.informationweek.com)
Category: other | Tags nypd, calls, citizens, amateur, video, evidence, 911, police, cell phone, camera,
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced that soon ordinary citizens will be able to transmit evidence of criminal activity directly to the police and 911. With so many people having cell phones there is great potential for capturing criminal activity on camera and giving that evidence to police. read more »
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Swedish government may soon get power to spy on its citizensOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 212 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
Category: security | Tags swedish, government, power, spy, citizens, , , , , ,
"Swedish surveillance legislation that is expected to pass an upcoming vote will open the door for what critics say is widespread scrutiny by the government..." read more »
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UK citizens' portal exposes edit kit interfaceOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 216 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
Category: security | Tags uk, citizens, portal, exposes, edit, kit, interface, , , ,
"Coding errors left the edit kit interface on the UK government's citizens' portal visible last week..." read more »
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Senate testimony: Google's efforts to better connect citizens to governmentOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 389 days ago (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
Category: internet | Tags google, senate, citizens, government, effort, , , , , ,
Pablo Chavez writes over on the official Google Policy Blog on Google's recent testimony before the Senate on their efforts to ensure that governmental websites are indexable by search engines thus read more »
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