Word: watchdogging
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...their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...
...Center for Public Integrity, a Washington D.C.-based nonpartisan watchdog group, says that evidence points to Harvard as the likely buyer...
...tobacco-history video. Perhaps more egregiously, it granted rural Nash County $400,000 for water and sewer engineering to attract a tobacco-processing plant. "The money is going in a circle here," says Don Carrington, vice president of the John Locke Foundation, a state-government watchdog group...
...public health, assessment or collection of a tax, duty or levy, prevention - in an emergency - of death or injury, or any damage to a person's physical or mental health. "Throughout history, surveillance has always started in piecemeal ways," says Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, a London-based watchdog group. "But once privacy is taken away, it is never returned. It becomes part of the infrastructure of surveillance and control." Also worried is Marco Cappato, an Italian Member of the European Parliament. An original sponsor of the E.U.'s data-protection legislation, he turned against it, he said, when...
...controversy of Winokur’s affiliation with Enron sparked the interest of HarvardWatch, a recently resurrected watchdog group of students, faculty and alums focusing on University governance...