Opponents of the system say law enforcement officials should be required to get the same kind of court order to use Carnivore as is required for full telephone wiretaps; the F.B.I. argues that it should be able to use the system under the relatively loose rules governing technologies that gather phone numbers dialed by suspects and the numbers of people calling them.
Many of the proposals under discussion involve small wording shifts whose impact can be difficult to understand, in part because the statutes are extremely technical and some govern technology that is classified.
After presenting his bona fides, Andreas gives one of the better descriptions I've read of the various cycles that govern technology: seasonal, quadrennial and fundamental.
One of the problems with the spread of high tech is that government policies governing emerging technologies can be incredibly piecemeal, with some areas becoming regulated heavily, and others hardly at all.
Any lack of transparency in a country's rule-making and notification procedures can cause problems for companies operating in the energy space, as the standards and rules governing emerging technologies and efficiency standards are still under development and can act as barriers to entry.
In the context of genetics, for example, it has been argued that within a decade developments led to a shift in the norms and principles governing such technologies, from "autonomy, privacy, justice, quality and equity" to "reciprocity, mutuality, solidarity, citizenry and universality" (Knoppers and Chadwick 2005, 75; Chadwick 2011, 54).
The commission modeled its video description rules on guidelines governing closed-captioning technology for the hearing impaired.
The commission will model its video description rules on guidelines governing closed-captioning technology for the hearing impaired.
Cultural and economic variances make it difficult to outline one single global model governing knowledge and technology transfer.
