But the president is also looking to drum up public support as he makes a renewed push for legislation that would give the administration new technological tools and broader authority in the battle against computer attacks by foreign governments.
Politicians and lawyers on both sides of the surveillance issue have debated where the line should be drawn between giving the authorities the technological tools they need and protecting the privacy of the public.
You have nearly done that, by talking to your neighbor, consulting local authorities and attempting technological fixes.
That changed after the directors of the school turned to a new technological tool to alert the authorities — and their watchdogs — to the problem.
"This technological innovation enabled traffic enforcement authorities to determine and quantify blood alcohol concentrations with sufficient accuracy to meet the demands of legal evidence," the National Safety Council said in naming Mr. Borkenstein to its Safety and Health Hall of Fame International in 1988.
And yet it is also the proverbial canary in the coalmine, signalling a broad populist/nationalist backlash – at least in advanced economies – against globalisation, free trade, offshoring, labour migration, market-oriented policies, supranational authorities, and even technological change.
In the U.S., the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA) requires that all wireless carriers provide the technological means for law enforcement authorities to tap wireless accounts.
To the extent that technological capacity still limits national authorities from engaging with the platform, convergence of diagnostic and coordination activities nonetheless consolidates what we can call informatic discretion outside their spheres of influence.
Mr Giggs's did not.The courts' inability to stem the tide of technological tittle-tattle risks eroding the authority of the whole legal system.
Lastly, this dimension involves the technological choice (e) made by the authorities for or against the use of digital photographic processes with more or less sophisticated levels of automation and which are more or less costly.
