The federal government restricts what former employees can work on after they leave the government, and for good reason. These post-employment conflict restrictions attempt to address the “revolving door” problem, where employees take information learned from their position in government to...

As big data's promises of increased efficiency and serendipitous insights spread across a broad range of sectors, they are accompanied by new risks, some intuitive, some unpredictable. That dichotomy is heavily accentuated in the law enforcement context, where blithe application of new...

“Big Data” is the bogeyman of the information age: powerful, and as ill-defined as it is abstractly threatening. The belief in the prescient value of big data has led to widespread collection of information on citizens and consumers in both the public and private sectors, though that...