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EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty
documents
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| Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "The U.S. government is
| still blocking the release of information about a secret intellectual
| property trade agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation
| around the world, despite the Obama administration's promises to run a more
| open government. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) could
| establish far-reaching customs regulations over Internet traffic in the guise
| of anti-counterfeiting measures, but no one knows for sure the state of this
| pact, as the government is hiding the details. EFF is calling on the feds to
| change their minds, and will keep fighting this in court."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/06/eff-sues-obama-admin.html
Congressional computers continue to be used to vandalize Wikipedia
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| Wikinews contributors have discovered that members of the United States
| Congress or members of their staff have recently been making questionable
| edits to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia anyone can edit. This
| continues the trend identified by four exclusive Wikinews reports over a
| four-year period exposing questionable and fraudulent edits made beginning in
| 2005 by Congress members or staff.
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Congressional_computers_continue_to_be_used_to_vandalize_Wikipedia
Government Still Blocking Information on Secret IP Enforcement Treaty
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| Two public interest groups today called on the government to stop blocking
| the release of information about a secret intellectual property trade
| agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation around the
| world.
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge said that the
| April 30th release of 36 pages of material by the United States Trade
| Representative (USTR) was the second time the government had the opportunity
| to provide some public insight into the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA), but declined to do so. More than a thousand pages of material about
| ACTA are still being withheld, despite the Obama administration's promises to
| run a more open government.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/05/06
Recent:
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
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| When the Obama administration took over, there was a public stance that this
| administration was going to be more transparent -- especially with regards to
| things like Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonprofit group
| Knowledge Ecology International took that to heart and filed an FOIA request
| to get more info on ACTA. The US Trade Representative's Office responded
| denying the request, saying that the information was "classified in the
| interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." This is a
| treaty about changing copyright law, not sending missiles somewhere. To claim
| that it's a national security matter is just downright scary. As KEI points
| out, the text of the documents requested have been available to tons of
| people, including more than 30 governments around the world and lobbyists
| from the entertainment industry, pharma industry and publishing industry.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090313/1456154113.shtml
Obama Names Craig Mundie to Sci-Tech Advisory Council
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/04/27/obama-names-craig-mundie-to-sci-tech-advisory-council.aspx
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