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According to the World Economic Forum, digital transformation in the Oil & Gas industry could unlock approximately $1.6 trillion of value for the industry, its customers and wider society. Digital transformation is emerging as a business strategy that leverages digitalization to lower costs and increase profitability across the business. As a broad technological movement, digitalization implies a high degree of connectivity and analysis of data and a vast acceleration in the ability to quickly assess fluid business situations and to make accurate predictions and decisions.  The amount of time and degree of investment required in the past to perform such work was prohibitive. Today, acquiring such abilities is both affordable and a prerequisite for remaining competitive. The digital transformation trend is spawning new developments in the areas of simulation and virtual and augmented reality, particularly in the areas of oil and gas engineering and training operations. On the e...

NSA Internet Surveillance Under Section 702 Violates the First Amendment The First Amendment is too often overlooked in discussions of the National Security Agency’s vast surveillance authorities. But as Congress considers whether to reauthorize  Section 702 of FISA this winter, we must remember that it’s not just our Fourth Amendment rights to privacy that are in the crosshairs, but also our First Amendment rights. These rights to anonymously speak, associate, access information, and engage in political activism are the bedrock of our democracy, and they’re endangered by the NSA’s pervasive surveillance. The NSA uses Section 702 to justify ongoing programs to siphon off copies of vast amounts of our communications directly from the Internet backbone as well as require system-wide searches across the information collected by major Internet companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple.  So how does the First Amendment come to apply to mass surveillance? To understand this,...