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Stephen Aftergood: Privacy Board Urges New Criteria for (Reduced) Secrecy

Privacy Board Urges New Criteria for Secrecy The public controversy that erupted over NSA bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records was a clear sign, if one were needed, that the boundaries of government secrecy had been drawn incorrectly, and that the public had been wrongly denied an opportunity to grant or withhold its consent in …

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Owl: Ralph Nader on Internet Wrongful Secrecy, Snares and Delusions

Expect to Get “Mice Print” or Little or Nothing When Looking for Public Information Ralph Nader debunks a major myth about the Internet: the assumption that government and important public information is accessible or easily so. As he shows, in many cases, not so at all: “Information technology (IT), now the supplier of millions of …

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Yale The Politic: The Intelligence Gathering Conundrum + Toxic Secrecy RECAP

SHORT URL This Post: http://tinyurl.com/Steele4Yale The Politic Introducing The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Politics The Intelligence Gathering Conundrum As distrust of the U.S. abounds, reliable intelligence is more difficult to procure. By Zachary Mohriing “Snowden and Manning fucked us. Who would want to work with us?” asked one former CIA officer.  Edward Snowden and Bradley …

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Steven Aftergood: Secrecy News Combined Federal Campaign Number is 11539 — Support Secrecy News If You Can

SUPPORT SECRECY NEWS, IF YOU CAN We hope that all Secrecy News readers will give generously to charitable causes that help relieve those who are in distress, near and far. But if you have something left over and you find our work interesting or useful for your own purposes, then we hope you may also …

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Jean Lievens: NSA + TSA = Questionable Due Process – a German Victim of Rule by Secrecy, or a Bulgarian Clandestine Asset Properly Barred?

Ilija Trojanow, German Writer, Banned From US For Criticizing NSA According to Der Spiegel, German-Bulgarian writer and activist Ilija Trojanow was barred from entering the United States on Monday. Trojanow was to speak at a literary conference. HuffPost Live’s Ahmed Shihab-Eldin took a closer look at the story, which has yet to be covered by …

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