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Record W1578045202

To Tap or Not to Tap? That is the Ugandan Phone Question

2007· article· en· W1578045202 on OpenAlexaff
Stephen Kaduuli

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPrivacy, Security, and Data Protection
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhoneParliamentLegislatureGovernment (linguistics)Political scienceLawPoliticsNational securityPublic administration
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Government of Uganda in 2007 introduced a bill in parliament pertaining to introduction of official telephone tapping through the Regulation of Interception of Communication Bill 2007. The bill has generated intense social, political, economic and legislative heat because most Ugandans are concerned that their privacy will be infringed upon in the name of national security. Phone tapping is the act of electronically telephone intercepting conversations without the knowledge or consent of at least one of the participants. It is practiced the world over especially in the developed democracies. Sometimes it is abused for selfish motives. But wherever the citizenry gets a whiff of it, there has been public outcry. The people view it as an attempt to 'Big Brother' their privacy in the name of maintaining their security. This essay looks at the definition, history, methods and experiences and reactions in other countries and the implications for Uganda.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0130.019
Scholarly communication0.0090.017
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0060.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.307 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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