Imagine parallels in other countries…

https://www.bespacific.com/crs-russian-cyber-units/

CRS – Russian Cyber Units

CRS In Focus – Russian Cyber Units, January 4, 2021: “Russia has deployed sophisticated cyber capabilities to conduct disinformation, propaganda, espionage, and destructive cyberattacks globally. To conduct these operations, Russia maintains numerous units overseen by its various security and intelligence agencies. Russia’s security agencies compete with each other and often conduct similar operations on the same targets, making specific attribution and motivation assessments difficult. Congress may be interested in the various Russian agencies, units, and their attributes to better understand why and how Russia conducts cyber operations.”

Surveillance creep. “We can, therefore we must!”

https://www.engadget.com/singapore-tracetogether-police-225552941.html

Singapore police can access data from the country's contract tracing app

With a nearly 80 percent uptake among the country’s population, Singapore’s TraceTogether app is one of the best examples of what a successful centralized contact tracing effort can look like as countries across the world struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic. To date, more than 4.2 million people in Singapore have download the app or obtained the wearable the government has offered to people.

… In an update the government made to the platform’s privacy policy on Monday, it added a paragraph about how police can use data collected through the platform. “TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected,” the new paragraph states. “Authorized Police officers may invoke Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) powers to request users to upload their TraceTogether data for criminal investigations.”

In case them thar furriners come up with an idea worth stealing...

https://www.bespacific.com/maximizing-the-index-to-foreign-legal-periodicals-in-all-law/

Maximizing the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals In All Law

A free webinar on the IFLP on January 13, 2021. It’s open to AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) and non-AALL members, but you must register: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 (12pm – 1pm ET). There will be a post at the IALL (International Association of Law Libraries) website for more information. See also these two HeinOnline Blog posts: Discover the Power of AALL’s Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals and Tips from the Experts for Using the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. (via Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Chicago Law School)