Digital Government
Edward Snowden’s Lesson to Both Businesses and the NSA: Your IT People Are Your Biggest Risk
Whether you’re running a 20-person office or the world’s biggest intelligence agency, remember who has the power to blow you up.
Digital Government
Visualizing the Stunning Growth of 8 Years of OpenStreetMap
Of course, these people know how to map their own mapping exploits.
Digital Government
Silicon Valley is More Involved in National Security Than You Think
NSA's data operations are largely privatized.
Digital Government
Government’s Data Grabs Are Unlikely to Prompt Legislative Action
Lawmakers have little appetite for undoing legislation that allowed the sweeps.
Digital Government
Putting open data to use
Posting spreadsheets to Data.gov is no longer enough. Agencies are increasingly using open data — their own and from other sources — in pursuit of core missions.
Emerging Tech
When Sci-Fi Crime-Prevention Tactics Aren't Actually That Far-Fetched
The Purge seems implausible, but according to criminologists, some sci-fi films' law-enforcement methods could be possible one day—and some are in use right now.
Cybersecurity
Obama's Cyberwar Target List Just Made His Meeting with China Very Difficult
Cyberwar is all-but-officially the new Cold War.
Digital Government
Every Library and Museum in America, Mapped
America's collection of museums and libraries is actually super impressive when you look at it on a map.
Digital Government
Moneyball Diplomacy
New data analysis tools could add a quantitative layer to how the U.S. manages foreign policy.
Acquisition
GSA IG criticizes managers meddling in contract negotiations
The report could inadvertently impede efforts to keep agencies and contractors talking, some fear.
Emerging Tech
Do We Need a Data Court?
FISA courts may not be equipped to make fast and smart decisions in the big data world.
Digital Government
Wanted: A rockstar developer for Data.gov
GSA wants to bring the talent behind its open-data project in-house.
Cybersecurity
What Google and NSA Snoops Have in Common
The world's Internet companies got rich behaving just like our government's intelligence apparatus.
Cybersecurity
Chinese Hackers Spied on the 2008 Elections, Too
Hackers accessed internal data from both the McCain and Obama campaigns.
Cybersecurity
Actually, Most Countries Are Increasingly Spying on Their Citizens, the UN Says
The NSA news is scary, but the U.S. is far from alone in the extent to which it monitors communications within its borders, a new report found.
Digital Government
Does government reward innovation?
Innovation comes with inherent high risk, Steve Kelman observes. The federal government makes it even riskier by punishing failure but barely rewarding success. Has a city in China found a better way?
Digital Government
GSA draws a homespun analogy for mobile
Mary Davie compares GSA's recently-announced wireless programs to a baseball game with food and easy fun.
Digital Government
The Vets in Tech Hackathon at Facebook
'Veterans don’t mind risk; entrepreneurship is nothing compared to what they have been through.'
Digital Government
What Did Tech Companies Know About the NSA and When Did they Know It?
Tech giants have denied they were in on the surveillance plan.
Digital Government