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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Spatial Data Distribution and National Security |
| Date: |
05/13/2004 05:25:00 PM |
| From: |
Ron Lake |
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Michael Gould wrote:
> Yes, I saw that conclusion also, 6% I think was the figure of possibly
> sensitive data.
> But if anything politically actionable is to come of the report/book,
> it just may be the overall suggestion that a few relevant agencies
> quantitatively study all GI to determine which may be sensitive.
> Provides an excuse to reduce access if they want to, that's all.
>
> What I think *is* interesting is that the government commissioned the
> study at all, which I would think cannot be positive for SDI
> initiatives out there.
>
> M Gould
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> At 22:13 13/05/2004, JONATHAN BYRON wrote:
>
>> Well, you are likely to find broad conclusions in the summary,
>> written in bureacratese. No surprise there.
>>
>> On page 27-28, it concluded that a small percent of currently
>> available geospatial data would be useful for planning an attack, and
>> none that they saw would be critical for planning an attack. That is
>> rather different from your suspicion that it was an attempt to
>> supress the availability of GIS data.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> "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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >Jonathan Byron
>> >GIS Specialist
>> >City of St. Augustine
>> >
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>> -----------------------
>> Michael Gould
>> Dept. Information Systems
>> (Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos)
>> Universitat Jaume I
>> E-12071 Castellón, Spain
>> mailto:gould@lsi.uji.es
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>
>
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> Michael Gould
> Dept. Information Systems
> (Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos)
> Universitat Jaume I
> E-12071 Castellón, Spain
> mailto:gould@lsi.uji.es
> GIM'04 workshop http://gim04.unizar.es
> 2nd Vespucci Summer School www.vespucci.org
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Hi,
You could look at it from another perspective. In order to control GI
information - y
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