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A Failure to Archive
Read the CRS Report “Records in the Digital Environment” in conjunction with this recent report from the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia “A Failure to Archive: Recommendations to Modernize Government Information Management”. The report outlines the huge and growing problem that the BC government has on their hands. There was […]
Aaron Swartz documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy” is available for CC-licensed preorder
“The Internet’s Own Boy,” Brian Knappenberger’s award-winning, acclaimed documentary about Aaron Swartz, will be in theaters around the country in the next few weeks and is also available to pre-order as a Creative Commons-licensed (CC-BY-NC-SA) video download. You can stream the movie for $7 from most platforms, and for $10, you can buy it from […]
FOIA’d doc reveal narrowly averted 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear Accident
The National Security Archive yesterday published a new “Electronic Briefing Book” entitled “New Details on the 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear Accident” which details the 1961 nuclear weapons accident in Goldsboro, North Carolina as described by a recently declassified Sandia National Lab report. The report was originally declassified by a FOIA request by Eric Schlosser, who wrote […]
FBI labels FOIA superhero Ryan Shapiro’s dissertation a threat to national security
Ryan Shapiro, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a FOIA superhero. He has become the “most prolific” FOIA requester the FBI has ever had, and they seem to be actively obstructing his legal right for documents in order to complete his research. Check out this DemocracyNow interview with him as he […]
Happy Sunshine Week! Congressional Data Coalition, open data, and public records
Happy Sunshine Week 2014! This is the week every year when open government activists and organizations, journalists, libraries, teachers and others interested in the public’s right to know promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information and [[FOIA]]. Check out the Sunshine Week events happening all this week! As a […]
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