Freedom of Information Act

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• EFF sues feds: tell us how you use Facebook for cyberstalking

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  The EFF, with the help of a group at the UC Berkeley Law School, has issued a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to federal agencies, asking for their policy on the use of social media content during investigations. Having received no response, theyre now taking six government agencies to court.
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• Senators Send Letter to NASA Inspector General

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  Just over a week ago, I noted that NASA Didn’t Get the Memo on ‘ClimateGate’.  Now, it appears, two Republican senators agree.Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, and Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, ...
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• Researcher: NASA hiding climate data

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise ...
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• Feds sued for use of social networking

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 133
  How does the government collect, analyze and utilize data from social networking websites?  Is the government restrained by any privacy considerations in how it uses social networking for surveillance purposes? These are the questions a new Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Electronic Frontier ...
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• Global warming controversy hits NASA climate data

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  The fight over climate science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding the release of the same kind of information that landed a leading British center in hot water over charges that it skewed its data. Christopher C. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise ...
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• Pentagon e-mails suggest US distrust of Canada

  
  PakPoint — Authority: 491
  WASHINGTON: How much does the U.S. government really trust Canada? Maybe less than you think. Espionage warnings from the Defense Department caused an international sensation a few years ago over reports of mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters, until they were debunked. The culprit turned out to be a ...
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• The Image and the Imagined: On Why We’re not Allowed to see Detainee Abuse

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 567
  By Aisha Ghani On Monday, November 30th the Supreme Court reversed a Second Circuit Court of Appeals order to release photographs of U.S. soldier abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to a statement by Solicitor General Elena Kagan, disclosing these photographs “would pose a clear and grave risk of ...
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• Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 545
  By Kim Zetter December 1, 2009 Wired Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian ...
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• Communities Have Right to Know About Toxic Coal Ash Impoundments

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 117
  Industry seeks to protect “trade secrets” in waste December 2, 2009 View of the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant fly ash spill, appx. 1 mile from the retention pond. This view is from just off Swan Pond Road. The pile of ash in the photo is 20-25 feet high, and stretches for two miles or so along this inlet.Photo: ...
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• The cat’s out of the bag!- Climate change is a load of cobblers!

  
  Richard Barnbrook — Authority: 113
  Nick Griffin- challenging the hype In an earth-shattering piece reported by the Telegraph on 27th November, it would appear that the scientific evidence for climate change is not what it seems. Leaked e-mails from scientists at the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia suggest in no uncertain terms, that the experts ...
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• Immigrant Detention Doubles Since 1999

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Detainees at the Willacy County Immigration Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas (Delcia Lopez/San Antonio Express-News/ZUMA Press) The number of immigrants in detention in the United States has more than doubled since 1999, according to a new report from a government data research organization released ...
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• New reports from Human Rights Watch and TRAC shed light on the shocking trend of detainee transfers

  
  Restore Fairness Blog — Authority: 120
  In recent years, a sharp rise in the number of non-citizens held in immigration detention has been accompanied by their increased transfer between facilities, creating barriers they face in accessing counsel and receiving fair treatment in immigration proceedings. These are the findings by TRAC (Transactional Records ...
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