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- Nov 07, 2020
Information Quotes
What we know, how we get it, and who controls it.
These information quotes span a wartime account of physicists comparing notes across borders, a case for treating the internet as more than just open access to ideas, and technical descriptions of how scientists actually gather data, from nuclear radiation measurements to brain tissue analysis. See Internet for the modern angle on this theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else's combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed on the ESPN platforms.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
- Credit Card
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I purchased my home, it was very strict underwriting standards. I had to provide two pay stubs, two years' tax returns, three months of bank statements, all sorts of credit card information.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.
- Genetics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
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- Nov 07, 2020