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Welcome Sitting Bull College Library to the FDLP!
Last week, GPO announced that Sitting Bull College Library had joined the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and would be the first digital-only member of the FDLP. Welcome Sitting Bull College to the FDLP! But one sentence piqued my interest in GPO’s press release: “…opting to meet their community’s needs by developing an online Government […]
Library associations weigh in on GPO’s proposed policy to allow Regionals to discard
[Update 12 September, 2014: I’ve added below links to the letters of the FDLP Regional Librarians group and of the Depository Library Council (DLC). I struck out my comment about GODORT being the only group comprised of govt information librarians. JRJ] I thought it’d be helpful to post the various letters in response to Government […]
More on NSA’s Google-like search engine to share data w agencies
Thanks Rachel for posting about the Intercept‘s new report about NSA’s search engine of harvested data. I thought readers would be interested in this DemocracyNow interview with Ryan Gallagher, the Intercept reporter who wrote this story. A particularly chilling part of the interview was when Gallagher described how the Intercept is now off-limits for Federal […]
Docs Confirm NSA sharing data with 23 U.S. government agencies, via ICREACH search engine
original post @ LIS-GISIG According to Classified documents obtained by The Intercept’ s Ryan Gallagher, “The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats.” The documents provide […]
FCC “Open Internet” Rule will hurt e-government
August 28, 2014 / Leave a comment
What will happen to government information on the web if we lose the little net neutrality we still have? Marvin Ammori of Slate’s Future Tense project, in partnership New America and Arizona State University, says that it will result in federal, city, and state government websites that run slowly and deliver errors. Nixing Net Neutrality […]
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