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How Much Money Does PACER Make?
Here’s some solid research by the Free Law Project about Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER). Amazing how much revenue PACER makes each year. That’s a TON of pages downloaded by users of public domain legal information! And they’ve got some ideas for developing a solution to this problem. In total, that’s $1.2B that […]
New report on open government data
A new report by the Data Foundation and Grant Thornton LLP “seeks to capture the moment, provide a vision of the future, and catalyze further efforts for the open data movement.” It includes interviews with more than 40 Congressional and agency leaders, open data experts and advocates, and private sector leaders. It also has a […]
Election Resources
Here are some links you might want to use this week. The Scout Report (October 28, 2016) Volume 22, Number 42. A special edition of The Scout Report on voting. “While U.S. presidential elections date back to 1789, the practice of voting in such elections has greatly changed as suffrage rights have expanded and new […]
CIA to post millions of CIA declassified documents online
The Central Intelligence Agency said this week that it will post its “CREST” (CIA Records Search Tool) database of more than 11 million pages of historical Agency records that have already been declassified and approved for public release online, making them broadly accessible to all interested users. CIA Will Place Its CREST Database Online by […]
Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15
“The Patriot Act turns 15 today, but that’s nothing to celebrate.” Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15, by Kate Tummarello, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (October 26, 2016). Number 4: Surveillance under the Patriot Act goes far beyond your phone company – Section 215 dramatically expanded the “business records” provision of the Foreign Intelligence […]
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