INST 734 Module 14 Doug Oard Agenda Search among secrets Preparing for the final exam Sensitive Content Privacysensitive personal interactions Phone email SMS Legally protected information ID: 257525
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The Future of IR
INST 734
Module 14
Doug
OardSlide2
AgendaSearch among secretsPreparing for the final examSlide3
Sensitive ContentPrivacy-sensitive personal interactionsPhone, email, SMS, …Legally protected informationDoctor-Patient, Attorney-Client, Trade secret, …National securitySlide4Slide5
Open Government
“Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use.”
Presidential Memorandum, January 21, 2009Slide6
ISSUE NO. 2:
Prioritizing the Declassification Review of Historically Significant Information. There is no satisfactory means at present of identifying historically significant information within the vast body of information that is being reviewed and declassified. Accordingly, no priority is given to the declassification and release to the public of such information.Slide7
Value EstimationEvidence for scholarly interestScholar-specified criteriaScholarly literatureFOIA and Mandatory Declassification requestsBoth the requests and the requested materialsEvidence for gaps in the scholarly recordPassage-level noveltyContradictionSlide8
Releasability EstimationDeclassification guidanceContentClassification markingsEvidence from relationshipsDecisions on other versions of the same documentDecisions on quoted contentDecisions on similar documentsSlide9
E-DiscoveryNational Archives
Clinton White HouseTobacco Policy
search request
hired 25 persons
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32 million emails
200,000
80,000
for 6 months …Slide10
TREC Legal Track Batch Privilege ReviewSlide11
Different Errors Have Different CostsIncorrect withholding results in foregone valueIncorrect disclosure can be the greater disasterResult: we withhold collections because we lack sufficient confidence that we can prevent:Potentially harmful disclosure of items, or of specific types of elements in those itemsPotentially harmful inferences at the collection, item, or element level Slide12
FOIA Guidance“[identify the subject(s) or record(s) as clearly and specifically as possible -- for example, all previously released National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) on the former Soviet Union's space program].”
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sample_request_letter.aspSlide13
ePADD Collection Overview
Sudheendra Hangal, Providing Access to Historical Email Archives for Historical Research, Personal Digital Archiving, 2013 Slide14
ePADD Partial Message ViewSlide15
Rush, The Redaction Archive, 2013 http://declassification-engine.org/redactions/#/Slide16
What Needs to be Withheld?Some specific itemse.g., privileged documents in e-discoverySome specific types of elements e.g., PII in medical recordsSome types of inference e.g., in declassificationThe location of the last copyIf your goal is to prevent authorized destructionSlide17
AgendaSearch among secretsPreparing for the final exam