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Freedom of information: Public ignorant of cyberspace attacks

donal brown April 19, 2011

A U.S. senator concerned that the American public has not been adequately informed about the dangers of cyberspace attacks is seeking to poke a hole in the classification system to raise awareness. Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News quoted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) about the effects of the attacks, “Every year, cyber attacks inflict vast damage on our Nation’s consumers, businesses, and government agencies. This constant cyber assault has resulted in the theft of millions of

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Opinion: Righthaven lacks exclusive copyright ownership of Stephens Media news articles

donal brown April 19, 2011

Electronic Frontier Foundation Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl says that in obtaining  from a federal district court an agreement between Righthaven and Stephens Media, it discovered that although Righthaven claimed in its suits for copyright infringement that it held exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute Stephens Media news articles, that the agreement stated that Righthaven “shall have no right or license to Exploit or participate in the receipt of royalties from the Exploitation of the

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Opinion: ‘Free speech zones’ violate First Amendment

donal brown April 19, 2011

Gene Policinski of the First Amendment Center argues that free speech zones run counter to the First Amendment  guarantee of unrestricted free speech. If people do not want to hear the words or view the signs that may offend them, the best remedy would be to simply leave or look away. -db From a commentary from the First Amendment Center, April 15, 2011, by Gene Policinski. Full story

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Real agenda cloaked in government buzzwords and bafflegab

FAC April 19, 2011

BY DICK ROGERS—When it came time last December to vote on a labor contract for hundreds of city workers, San Leandro leaders didn’t scurry into a back room to make the politically hot decision in secret. That’s the good news. The bad news is that San Leandro, like other local governments, obscured its intent and minimized public participation in another way. Call it hiding in plain sight. Instead of helping the public by spelling out

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Federal appeals court rules lower court must unseal Google report

donal brown April 18, 2011

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted MediaPost’s request for a court document with details of Google’s compliance with an order for it to deactivate a Gmail user’s account. The court ruled the district court had not made the case that the public had no right to access the report. The dispute originated with a bank who had mistakenly sent sensitive customer data to a Gmail address and asked Google to provide information about

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