Obama's experience of drone war — including the criticism he has received from international lawyers and human-rights groups over civilian casualties — may have motivated him, last year, to tighten targeting oversight, albeit in secret and while evading accountability for errors made early in his Administration.
"FSA is missing opportunities to target its oversight and improve services to borrowers," Emrey-Arras said in the remarks.
Rather than a 'tick box' focus on meeting particular targets, board oversight concerned building trust through the development of better social interactions and interpersonal connectedness with their organisations [ 21].
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Starting in January, armed with the power to call hearings and issue subpoenas, he will play lead conductor to the new majority's other committee chairmen in investigating what he says is a "long list" of oversight targets.
In addition, the requirement for targeting means that oversight should be focussed on the problem and enforcers should predominately focus on those whose activities give rise to the most serious risks.
Citizen Lab and others have repeatedly demonstrated that advanced "lawful intercept" spyware enables some governments and agencies, especially those operating without strong oversight, to target and harass journalists, activists and human rights workers.
"It had two components: Aggressive, coordinated oversight, and targeted legislative strikes aimed at shattering the legislative coalition the president has used to force his law on the nation.
The proposed new legal framework should for the first time explicitly set out surveillance capabilities, detailing the authorisation procedures, privacy constraints, transparency requirements, targeting criteria, sharing arrangements, oversight, and other safeguards.
Whereas existing unmanned robotics still rely on humans to pull the trigger (keeping human agency in the loop), fully automated weapons systems would be able to locate, select, and execute their own targets with only human oversight and overrides at best, or without any human intervention at worst.
