Government Sites Aren't FOIA-Friendly
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Federal agencies helped create the Internet, but most do not use it to inform the public about what they do, a study to be released today shows.
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A website that allows whistle blowers to anonymously post sensitive  documents is taken offline in the US.
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A recent federal judge rejected the Department of Justice's request to force a defendant to cough up his PGP passphrase. We were unsuccessful in getting the agency to elaborate.
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A Web site operated by Ron Harper Jr. was misidentified in a story in Friday's Intelligencer Journal. The Web site is 5thEstate.com.           The Intelligencer Journal wants to correct substantive errors of fact.
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White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws and let them keep their guests a secret.
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Worried that Google and other search sites know too much about you --- and that the feds can subpoena that data? Fear not -- we've got seven steps you can follow to keep your search history to yourself.
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WASHINGTON _ Slowly but surely, the government is getting Googled.  Two years ago, the Google staff in Washington was one person _ Alan Davidson, an expert in technology law.
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Also: Privacy: The problem that won't go away. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Also: Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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There's still too much paper to pluck from files. There's not enough sharing of information. Yet despite such problems, the government has been picking up speed in processing security clearances.
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In a recent interview, privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg said it isn't clear how government agencies or companies will use the personal data that they collect via things such as identity and shopping courtesy cards.
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The Bush administration argued in court papers this week that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act as part of its effort to fend off a civil lawsuit seeking the release of internal documents about a large number of e-mails missing from White Ho...
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A federal judge today rejected Bush administration claims that White House visitor logs created by the Secret Service are not public records and ordered information involving the visits of nine conservative religious figures to be released to an advocacy group.
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The Bush administration's new privacy guidelines fail to protect the rights of Americans, and the board created to guarantee those rights lacks the independence to do the job, civil libertarians told the White House privacy board yesterday at its first public forum.
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This scenario is all too familiar to office workers who collaborate electronically on projects: E-mails get passed around with differing versions of documents-in-progress attached. Instant messages whizz by. Web sites are cited, then lost. It's often a jumbled mess, with no central online location for shared data. There must be a better way.
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A probe finds the bureau abused its expanded powers to obtain Americans' private records. Time to put the G-men on a shorter leash. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Poor information-sharing both inside and outside government is threatening homeland security, congressional investigators said Tuesday.