Thirty years ago, in Youngberg v. Romeo, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that those who are involuntarily committed in a state institution enjoy a constitutionally protected liberty interest, which protects the right to reasonably safe conditions of confinement, freedom from unreasonable restraint, and minimally adequate training sufficient to ensure these liberty interests. In a unanimous de...

This paper describes how a startup business process outsourcing (BPO) provider named Liberty Source helped a large U.S.-based client reshore business services from an established Indian BPO provider. Founded in 2014, Liberty Source is a for-profit firm that provides a competitive alternative to offshoring while fulfilling its social mission to launch and sustain the careers of U.S. military spo...

Cross-domain identity management is gaining significant interest in industry. A wellknown example is the Liberty Alliance’s specifications for single signon of web users across different enterprises. The Liberty Alliance stresses that account linking is voluntary for the users and that privacy is an important consideration. We evaluate the privacy of these specifications in detail. We point out...