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.
We find that compared with non-PE acquirers, PE acquirers are more likely to place representatives with finance experience or those with experience in the target's industry on the target's board when the need for target oversight and/or advice is higher.
"FSA is missing opportunities to target its oversight and improve services to borrowers," Emrey-Arras said in the remarks.
"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.
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.
However, if future research in other settings continues to imply that environmental information particularly spurs activist and regulatory pressures, one implication is that transparency programs targeted towards NGOs and government oversight are especially likely to affect firms' bottom lines and (eventually) their "greenness".
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].
Witness the total lack of oversight that lets anyone pay to conduct targeted manipulation of public opinion and screw the socially divisive consequences.
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.
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.
