• Information as public domain, access through libraries

    November 24, 2004

    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 [...]

  • Privacy: Feds want more access to student records

    November 24, 2004

    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 [...]

  • Access to information sharply curtailed under Ashcroft

    November 23, 2004

    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 [...]

  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Removes Data From Public Access

    November 21, 2004

    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 [...]

  • Public-inerest groups’ papers stolen at World Intellectual Property Organization Meeting

    November 20, 2004

    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 [...]

  • E-voting machine irregularities in FL

    November 18, 2004

    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

    November 18, 2004

    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 [...]

  • Fair use being attacked AGAIN!

    November 17, 2004

    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 [...]

  • Encyclopedia Britannica editor reviews Wikipedia

    November 16, 2004

    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 [...]

  • More public interest groups opposed to Gonzales

    November 15, 2004

    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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