Word: watchdogging
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...Internet has grown too large to think of it as a single place, says Esther Dyson, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet watchdog group. "It needs to be subdivided into smaller neighborhoods. There should be high-class neighborhoods. There should be places that parents feel are safe for their kids...
...WATCHDOG After speed-dialing 911 for her unconscious owner and barking into the phone, a Rottweiler in Richland, Wash., let the cops inside...
...Pentagon was justified in setting the contract, known as Future Combat Systems, outside the normal procurement process. "The type of contracting leaves the government extremely vulnerable because there is no transparency or taxpayer protection," says Eric Miller, the senior defense analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington watchdog group. "It is ripe for abuse and often misused." A Pentagon representative said the program is being properly monitored...
...expressed willingness to “tweak” the legislation by specifically listing companies such as the Alcatel communications company of France and the Siemens AG communications company of Germany, which have been accused by watchdog groups of conducting business with the Sudanese government...
Herms is the founder of the local watchdog group Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy (StalCommPol). The organization, which is not affiliated with Harvard, made headlines in March of 2004 when it released a study that said Harvard students are more likely to be victims of violent crime than students at other comparable institutions...