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Check out the @RadReference anti-surveillance zine
Hey, check out the new, hot-off-the-presses Radical Reference anti-surveillance zine! It’s chock full of information to keep individuals and libraries safe in our ubiquitous surveillance world. It’s under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA license so feel free to print and hand them out in your library. Ever since the events of September 11th, something […]
The Post Office as Bank for the Unserved
Doc of the day: Providing Non-Bank Financial Services for the Underserved, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Report Number:RARC-WP-14-007 (January 27, 2014) [pdf. 33 pages]. Millions of Americans do not have a bank account, or use costly services like payday loans and check cashing exchanges just to make ends meet. The entire underserved population […]
NSA, you know, for kids!
Doc of the day! The NSA’s website for kids! I hope someone carefully preserves this. I imagine it will be an important cultural artifact some day when we look back at the National Security Agency and the recent revelations about its spying on everyone. And don’t forget: “Crypto Cat®, Decipher Dog®, Rosetta Stone®, Slate®, Joules™, […]
Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board releases report on NSA bulk telephone records program
The Privacy And Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has released its report on the National Security Agency’s program of collecting bulk phone call records. Thirteen U.S. Senators asked the PCLOB to investigate two NSA programs (referred to as section 215 and 702 of the USA PATRIOT Act) and the operation of the FISA court. The […]
PCEA Gov Doc: The American Voting Experience: Report & Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration
via LIS-GISIG – gov-info.tumblr.com supportthevoter.gov The Presidential Commission on Election Administration was established by Executive Order on March 28, 2013. Its mission is to identify best practices in election administration and to make recommendations to improve the voting experience. The Commission’s key recommendations call for: Modernization of the registration process through continued expansion of online […]
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