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Judge defers on media request to unseal search warrant affidavit in flap over iPhone

donal brown May 7, 2010

A San Mateo County judge declined to decide a request by news organizations to unseal a search warrant affidavit to learn the justification for a police search of a Gizmodo eitor’s home for records about how he obtained an iPhone prototype. Judge indicates case should be heard by judge who OK’s warrant-db CNET News May 6, 2010 By Declan McCullagh REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–A San Mateo County judge on Thursday refused to consider a request by

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Environmental Protection Agency puts critical information online

donal brown May 6, 2010

In keeping with the Obama open government initiative, the EPA is providing new online tools to provide information about enforcement action against polluters, health risks from toxic chemicals and environmental disasters including the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. -db OMB Watch May 4, 2010 Several new online tools developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are now available to provide the public with a variety of environmental information collected by the

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Environmental Protection Agency stonewalls on hazards of New Mexico landfills

donal brown May 6, 2010

According to a report from the EPA Inspector General, the EPA circumvented the Freedom of Information Act by not keeping records and marking unclassified records as confidential. The EPA blocked efforts of a New Mexico group investigating hazardous landfills and Albuquerque’s groundwater. -db Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists May 5, 2010 By Steven Aftergood Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency intentionally stopped keeping records concerning potentially hazardous landfills in New Mexico in order to

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Coast Guard’s web-based news site on Gulf oil spill may provide model for covering future disasters

donal brown May 6, 2010

The Coast Guard’s Deepwater Horizen Response site created in 24 hours to cover the Gulf oil spill has been so successful in providing photos and information about the spill that some say the site could become a model for how government disseminates information during disasters. -d NextGov May 5, 2010 By Bob Brewin Crisis management in an Internet-driven news cycle demands a fast response. So after an explosion rocked a drilling rig in the Gulf

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Push begins in Congress to update Internet and electronic media privacy law

donal brown May 6, 2010

A House of Representatives subcommittee began hearings on updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act enacted in 1986 before the Internet existed. -db American Civil Liberties Union Press Release May 5, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing today on updating the out-of-date Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). ECPA became law in 1986 – long before the Web was invented – and has not

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