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From EPIC: “Through the Freedom of Information Act, EPIC has obtained FBI reports to Congress stating that the agency did not use its DCS 1000 Internet monitoring system — formerly known as Carnivore — during fiscal years 2002 (pdf) and 2003 (pdf). According to the reports, the FBI used commercially available software to conduct court-ordered …
Access to Government Information in the United States, updated January 7, 2005: “Throughout the first 150 years of the federal government, access to government information does not appear to have been a major issue among the three branches or for the citizenry. There were a few instances during this period when the President, for reasons …
“EPIC has learned through Freedom of Information Act litigation that the FBI obtained 257.5 million Passenger Name Records following 9/11, and that the Bureau has permanently incorporated the travel details of tens of millions of innocent people into its law enforcement databases. The FBI made the revelation as it explained (29 pages, PDF) why it …
Press release: “Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and other offices of the US Department of Justice, seeking the release of documents that would reveal whether the government has been using the USA PATRIOT Act to spy on Internet users’ reading habits without a …
From the DOJ Office of Information and Privacy, “the following Freedom of Information Act decisions were received by the Office of Information and Privacy during the months of October through December 2004.”
From CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK), Freedom of Information Web Resources. (via Net-Gold)
Federal Register, January 7, 2004, FCC Final Rule, Broadband Power Line Systems – SUMMARY: “This document adopts new requirements and measurement guidelines for a new type of carrier current system that provides access to broadband services using electric utility companies’ power lines. This new technology offers the potential for the establishment of a significant new …
Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the NASA Office of Inspector General, September 2004: “Laws and Regulations Governing the Protection of Sensitive But Unclassified Information.” (32 pages, PDF, via Secrecy News) “This report sets forth the statutes, regulations, and Executive Branch directives that define and govern …
Researcher Michael Ravnitzky obtained an archive of over 500,00 documents from the Air Force Historical Research Agency, “cover(ing) almost every aspect of US military history from the 1920s to the early 1980s…This is the first time that this massive list has been seen by the public.” His FOIA request yielded this unprecedented collection of documents …
According to the Boston Globe, the CIA is invoking the Glomar response to forestall responding to FOIA requests submitted by advocacy groups for documents and photos related to detainee abuse. the “CIA . . . asserts that it is not able to confirm or deny whether it has any records relating to its purported involvement …
As a followup to my December 22 posting, Human Rights Group Submits FOIA Request for Docs. on Detainees, this Washington Post (reg. req’d) editorial from December 23, War Crimes.
Press release: “In New York, on December 21, 2004, the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking all records held by the U.S. Departments of Defense, Justice and State, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with respect to the treatment of all detainees being held in U.S. …
