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Resources for 'Access and Technology: Recovering the Promise'

National Freedom of Information Day conference, March 16, 2000

03.14.00

Sponsored by The Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center in cooperation with the American Library Association.

  • Journalists denounce government 'shutter control' idea for satellite images
  • Former Commerce official blasts notion that digital divide is gone
  • True nature of 'digital divide' divides experts
  • Experts debate e-threats to privacy, security
  • FOI Day: Kirtley warns government fear threatens right to information
  • Commentary: Access and technology: Change as an excuse for closure, by Paul McMasters

    Freedom of Information Updates

  • In the courts.
  • Federal legislation.
  • Government secrecy.
  • Press use of FOI requests.
  • The Clinton years.
  • State and local developments.
  • International laws.
  • Access to prisons.
  • Access for prisoners.