Tag archive for ‘secrecy’
Copyright law wishlist would grant unprecedented, sweeping powers
The leaked “wishlist” that the Recording Industry Asssociation of America submitted to the US government urges mandatory ISP filtering, and would hold Internet service providers responsible for what their customers download. This copyright act is being drafted behind closed doors, so leaked documents are the only rays of sunlight in the process. Read the recording industry’s wish list…
Preparing the Battlefield
Seymour Hersh is the investigative reporter who broke the My Lai and Abu Ghraib stories. Now, in this month’s The New Yorker magazine, Hersh talks about the Bush administration’s covert activities in Iran. All the more shocking for the non-sensational way he presents the information, he reveals that we have been funding terrorist groups such as the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq in Iran. Bush and Cheney have built multiple chains of command that report to them, not to commanders in the field…
Bush administration censors federal wildlife report
A large portion of an Inspector General evaluation of federal wildlife programs has been censored prior to pubication. Even data tables have been excised from a report on Endangered Species Act implementation, with cutouts so extensive that the core section of the report is virtually unreadable.
Secret copyright treaty memo leaked
Cory Doctorow writes:
Wikileaks has the full text of a memo concerning the dread Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a draft treaty that does away with those pesky public trade-negotiations at the United Nations (with participation from citizens’ groups and public interest groups) in favor of secret, closed-door meetings where entertainment industry giants get to give marching orders [...]
FBI backs off from gag order against the Internet Archive
It is one of only three known instances in which the FBI has backed off from such a data demand, known as a “national security letter,” or NSL, which is not subject to judicial approval and whose recipient is barred from disclosing the order’s existence.
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