Freedom of Information

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• Obama Makes More Promises About Open Government

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 442
  The Obama Administration has finally published a set of guidelines for making the federal government more open , sharing information with citizens about its activities. Woo. Hoo. Color me impressed. Another set of promises from President Obama. I’ll be sincerely impressed when I see the promise of open ...
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• Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to Spy Agencies and Police for Small Price

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 584
  Something we have alleged since 10 years, has now come into the open with the proof of U.S. email companies spying on their users.From: MathabaYahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides to “law enforcement” and spy agencies has leaked onto the web.After earlier reports this week ...
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• White House Throws Open the Doors of Government

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 133
  As you probably know, the Obama administration released the Open Government Directive this morning .  OMB Watch applauds this latest effort to create a more open and accountable government. In this season of gift giving, the results appear to be well worth the wait.  The president called for progress on three ...
  19 hours ago

• Local 2 fights for records from Metro detailing security camera outages

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 536
  KPRC Local 2 here in Houston fought to get records from the Metro system showing routine outages of security cameras at Metro’s “park and ride” lots. KPRC investigative reporter Stephen Dean had a great piece on last night’s 10 p.m. newscast:HOUSTON — Internal records detail a daily list of camera outages at ...
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• Press call – demonstration against Philippines media massacre

  
  NUJ Brussels — Authority: 107
  IFJ / NUJbrussels invite you to join in a demonstration against the recent Philippines massacre of 31 journalists, in what is the single greatest atrocity against journalists on record. Read more on this entry.
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• Open Government Directive to be Released During Live Webcast - 11am, 12/8

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 133
  The open government directive is scheduled to be released at 11am on Dec. 8.   The announcement will be made in a live webcast hosted by US CIO Vivek Kundra and US CTO Aneesh Chopra.  There will be a live forum following the announcement so that citizens may give feedback and ask questions.  Please watch the White ...
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• Federal workshop on openness closed to the public (AP via Yahoo! News)

  
  Debt Consolidation Blog — Authority: 145
  The Obama administration conducted a workshop on government openness for federal employees behind closed doors Monday, a private training session for freedom-of-information officials to learn about a new U.S. office that settle disputes between the bureaucracy and the public.
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• Are Americans Fed Up With Health Care Reform?

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 133
  A coordinated campaign to hide scientific information about climate change appears unprecedented. Could it wind up costing us trillions ? Science depends on good quality of data. It also relies on replication and sharing data. But the last couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations. Computer hackers ...
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• Lansing FOIA group takes steps toward public transparency

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 608
  LANSING — Members of the Lansing city attorney’s Freedom of Information Act policy working group left a 45-minute closed-door meeting on Friday promising a renewed spirit of openness going forward. Media were barred from attending the meeting to discuss new transparency policies for the city of Lansing held ...
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• The Attorney-in-Chief issues orders with manly firmness

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 486
  Attorneys are really something. Their whole world is built around words. Words are all important. That’s why you have stickers on plastic bags nowadays that have words that say “This is not a toy”. In spite of the fact that the warning from the Surgeon General has been printed on the side of a pack cigarettes, ...
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• Obama opaque on promise to bring transparency

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  Its hardly the image of transparency that the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public. The event Monday for federal employees is a fitting symbol of President Obamas uneven record so far on the Freedom of Information Act, a big part of keeping his campaign ...
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• Chilcot tantalises us with documents | Richard Norton-Taylor

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The cosy Iraq inquiry has an infuriating habit of referring to key evidence but not indicating when, if ever, it will be published The Chilcot inquiry is in danger of driving to distraction those who still hope to get to the truth behind Britains biggest foreign policy disaster in modern times. It is as if it is a ...
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• Does Yahoo have a price list for spying on criminal suspects?

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Yahoo “Spying Guide” Debunked - False Alarm Raised Over Allegation of ISP Spying Guides and Selling User Data

  
  The Internet Patrol — Authority: 125
  Take one part paranoia, one part zeal, two parts conspiracy theory, and someone with too much time on their hands, and what do you get? No, its not the sequel to Minority Report . Its the allegation that Yahoo and other ISPs are spying on their users and selling their users information, with publication of the ...
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• Making government open using ICTs and decentralized innovation

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 131
  Many countries have yet to open up government information. Even India, which has a freedom of information law, has so many exceptions to the duty to release. Simply releasing information is not enough. We need to have information in usable form. This NYT article shows some good examples. Many local governments ...
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• Does Yahoo have a price list for spying on criminal suspects?

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryYahoo apparently has a detailed price list for what some are calling “spying services” that it provides to law enforcement agencies.Wired’s Threat Level security blog has reported that Yahoo blocked a Freedom of Information Act request from an Indiana University graduate student, ...
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• Federal Government still interested in examining private sector disclosure rules

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 132
  Thanks to the alert reader who noticed in the fine print of the Second Reading Speech on the Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill, confirmation that the Government intends to go ahead with a reference to the Australian Law Reform Commission on private sector disclosures. Timing is vague, compared to ...
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• Climategate: Who pays?

  
  The Tao of Blog — Authority: 99
  Given the amount of money that the various Cap and Trade policies, speculated to generate, $45 trillion, and the amount of funding that the researchers have been allocated, $20 million in “ research ” grants, we need to be sure, before giving a artificial value to one of the most abundant substances in the ...
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• More ideas for openness

  
  The Opinion Blog — Authority: 139
  Friday’s editorial highlights some of the initiativespending in the S.C. legislature to increase openness in government. For a wide-ranging primer on theideas knocking around the state legislature, its tough to do better than “TheS.C. General Assembly: Best and Worst of 2009,” a report compiled in Septemberby ...
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• The Truth About The BLS Lies

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 750
  All you need to know about how the BLS really counts unemployment in one simple cartoon.   And, as we expected earlier, here is Mr. Bidermans summation on what will likely one day (after Russian hackers get into BLS emails) turn out to be an advance April fools joke by the Bureau of Lies and Stupidity: ...
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