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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, has failed in its FOIA suit to obtain records of how the FBI protects the privacy of individuals ending up in its Investigative Data Warehouse. -DB The San Diego Times-Tribune April 19, 2009 By Michael J. Sniffen WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows

The Central Intelligence Agency has done a commendable job of scanning declassified records into digital format but blocks access by requiring researchers to travel to the National Archives in Maryland to view the records. –DB Secrecy Federation of American Scientists March 26, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Central Intelligence Agency maintains a regularly updated electronic archive of declassified historical records that have been publicly disclosed, but it has effectively squandered the utility of digitizing these

The Recorder newspaper in San Francisco reports that federal district courts in California, in apparent violation of First Amendment standards and the courts’ own rules, routinely sign off on on parties’ joint requests to seal records without requesting, or making findings concerning, the justification for cutting off public access. When both parties’ lawyers stipulate to the sealing, and no one is present to represent the interests of the press or public in open access, overworked