Information as Public Domain: Access through Libraries
This is a declaration from an international conference in Russia held last month. The link only has the declaration in English with the program listed in Russian. Be that as it may, it’s a good reminder that the entire world is interested in information access and that the public [...]
AP Wire | 11/24/2004 | Higher ed officials question request to access student records
Higher education officials in South Carolina are concerned about a proposal that would give the federal government more access to individual student records….
The U.S. Department of Education says it wants more information about students as a way to better track trends such [...]
Shhh … someone might hear you.
By Alex Johnson, MSNBC
Updated: 6:19 p.m. ET Nov. 18, 2004.
On the occasion of Attorney General Ashcroft’s resignation, MSNBC reviews his contempt for freedom of information. One particularly notable case was the redaction of almost half of a report on workplace diversity
in Ashcroft’s Justice Department. The redacted portions were [...]
Announcement of Intent To Initiate the Process To Remove
Aeronautical Information From Public Sale and Distribution
AGENCY: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Department of
Defense.
FR Doc 04-25631.
Federal Register: November 18, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 222)]
[Notices]
[Page 67546-67547]
SUMMARY: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to
remove its Flight Information Publications (FLIP), Digital Aeronautical
Flight Information File (DAFIF), and related aeronautical safety of
navigation digital [...]
Letter to WIPO on stolen EFF documents Cory Doctorow, Electronic Freedom Foundation,
November 18, 2004.
Cory is blogging the WIPO meetings in Geneva where negotiations over the Broadcasting Treaty, which has the power to lock up the public domain and break the web, are being held.
Let me try to convey to you the depth of the weirdness [...]
The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections by Michael Hout, Laura Mangels, Jennifer Carlson, and Rachel Best.
This working paper just came out today (11/18/04). There are some pretty strange findings and the authors say they are “99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to
chance.” [...]
The Arrival Of Secret Law
by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News,
Volume 2004, Issue No. 100.
November 14, 2004.
Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally-binding regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are forbidden to know.
This is not some dismal Eastern European allegory. It is part of a continuing transformation of American government that [...]
Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill
This is one of those times when several threads in my brain coalesce. I got a chance to hear Pamela Samuelson, dean of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology speak at UCSD two days ago on the subject of P2P. Fascinating talk on an issue of great importance [...]
The Faith-Based Encyclopedia
by Robert McHenry, TCS: Tech Central Station, 11/15/2004.
An interesting article. As McHenry, a former editor in chief of the Encyclop¾dia Britannica. notes:
Then comes the crucial and entirely faith-based step:
3. Some unspecified quasi-Darwinian process will assure that those writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive; articles will eventually reach a [...]
The Quaint Mr. Gonzales
More public interest groups — such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU (although they officially take no position, they call for a full and thorough hearing) — are coming out and voicing their displeasure over President Bush’s choice for attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. There’s no question [...]
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