He also created a dossier of staged interviews to show his bosses that Mr. Taylor was too valuable to indict.
The effect of Dripa is to use bulk data retention to create a dossier on every person in the UK.
Google could collect data on what books people read and create a dossier of their political views and other information.
His medium is fictional, his method factual: that is, he has created a dossier of documents that provide a convincing back story, a paper trail to a tragedy.
"He creates a dossier for himself," Ms. Srbljanovic said, "in which he brags about his prior life as an important dissident always attacking the regime.
The Justice Department official interacted with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who, during the 2016 campaign, created a dossier of allegations against Mr. Trump.
The assignment from the class's professor, Joel R. Reidenberg, was, admittedly, a bit provocative: create a dossier about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from what can be found on the Internet.
Yet the class managed to create a dossier of 15 pages, Professor Reidenberg reported to a conference on privacy at Fordham, that included the justice's home address and home phone number, his wife's personal e-mail address and the TV shows and food he prefers.
Together, they created a dossier of evidence cataloguing the woeful state of her local orthotics department.
Refresh, for instance, has created a dossier to put an end to small talk for your next business meeting.
