The rapid proliferation of police body cameras represents potential new accountability for police violence, but also a dangerous new avenue of surveillance.
However imperfect, Nuremberg's legacy is one of potential, for the idea of accountability, for the hope that we shall not become like those who seek to destroy us, and for the memory of justice.
As if two potential mayoral candidates proclaiming the need for accountability were not enough, the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, entered the fray, declaring that he would cooperate with Mr. de Blasio and post his office's discretionary expenses on the site.
Still, that optimistic prologue stirs resistance in me, partly because the potential for human error compounds the accountability problem, especially when we try to predict the future for our fetuses.
Set against that is the loss of local accountability and potential for local mobilisation which was a feature of the original 2003 Act.
While acknowledging that the disclosure of the CIA program's details now has "potential ramifications overseas," that risk is outweighed by a need for accountability, Obama said.
The silver lining in all this recent turmoil is that the flaws in our electoral process -- the inconsistent standards, the confusing ballots, the lack of accountability and the potential for conflicts of interest -- are all now exposed.
The final section of the paper investigates the potential for a more 'intelligent' form of accountability, grounded in an ethic of humility and generosity, made possible by a conscious acknowledgement of the ways in which I can never quite know what it is that I am doing.
This work suggests that patients and members of the public remain worried about certain aspects of EHR security, such as the extent of information sharing, governance and accountability risks, the potential for unauthorised access and prejudice, errors and inaccuracies, as well as use of health data for profit and exploitation.
