The Senate released a 528-page executive summary of its study on the CIA’s detention program, more than eight years after the secret overseas prisons were shut down. The report rejected many of the agency’s claims on the effectiveness of harsh interrogation techniques.
Read it yourself.
On October 30, 2014, the Data & Society Research Institute, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and New America’s Open Technology Institute hosted the first annual conference on Data & Civil Rights on October 30, 2014 at the Newseum in Washington, DC. This year’s conference focused on why “big data†is a civil rights issue. The event convened a diverse group of people from the civil rights community, government, industry, philanthropy, and research.
via Data Civil Rights.
December Book Display
It has been 16 years this December since the U.S. launched its component of the International Space Station. Come check out more about it and other aspects of space exploration at the Todd Library
