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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Spatial Data Distribution and National Security |
| Date: |
05/13/2004 03:45:01 PM |
| From: |
Michael Gould |
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Yes, I saw that conclusion also, 6% I think was the figure of possibly=20
sensitive data.
But if anything politically actionable is to come of the report/book, it=20
just may be the overall suggestion that a few relevant agencies=20
quantitatively study all GI to determine which may be sensitive. Provides=20
an excuse to reduce access if they want to, that's all.
What I think *is* interesting is that the government commissioned the study=
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at all, which I would think cannot be positive for SDI initiatives out=
there.
M Gould
At 22:13 13/05/2004, JONATHAN BYRON wrote:
>Well, you are likely to find broad conclusions in the summary, written in=
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>bureacratese. No surprise there.
>
>On page 27-28, it concluded that a small percent of currently available=20
>geospatial data would be useful for planning an attack, and none that they=
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>saw would be critical for planning an attack. That is rather different=20
>from your suspicion that it was an attempt to supress the availability of=
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>GIS data.
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>Jonathan
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> >>> Michael Gould <gould@lsi.uji.es> 05/13/04 03:56PM >>>
>Interesting in what sense? The report doesn't reach many solid
>conclusions, other than that the federal agencies now have an excuse for
>filtering public sector information flow.
>
>printed page 128 states in the conclusions:
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>"An analytical process should be used by federal agencies and
>other organizations to assess the potential homeland security sensitivity
>of specific pieces of geospatial information that is publicly
>available and whether restricting access would enhance security.
>The analytical framework presented earlier is a useful first step, which
>is immediately available, for helping federal decisionmakers to make
>sound and consistent decisions on whether and how to restrict public
>access to geospatial information. We also believe that this framework
>can be useful for any decisionmaker faced with determining whether
>and how to make specific geospatial information publicly accessible."
>
>Sounds like this process could potentially boil down to supression of large
>scale geospatial data in just those key areas where people are most likely
>to want to study. By people I mean all citizens, even the "bad ones" who
>also have access to public libraries and the web :-)
>
>Perhaps other on these lists will actually read the report, and then opine.
>
>cheers
>Michael Gould
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>At 20:50 13/05/2004, JONATHAN BYRON wrote:
> >Interesting paper from the RAND think tank dealing with spatial data
> >distribution and homeland security.
> >
> >http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG142/MG142.pdf
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> >
> >Jonathan Byron
> >GIS Specialist
> >City of St. Augustine
> >
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>Michael Gould
>Dept. Information Systems
>(Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos)
>Universitat Jaume I
>E-12071 Castell=F3n, Spain
>mailto:gould@lsi.uji.es
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Michael Gould
Dept. Information Systems
(Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos)
Universitat Jaume I
E-12071 Castell=F3n, Spain
mailto:gould@lsi.uji.es
GIM'04 workshop http://gim04.unizar.es
2nd Vespucci Summer School www.vespucci.org
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