[SLA-SF] Intersect Alert, April 4, 2006

[Anne Barker]

Freedom of Information

 

Bipartisan Group of Senators Call for GAO Inquiry of EPA Changes to Toxic Release Inventory Program

In a letter sent March 27, 2006 to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a bipartisan group of Senators called for an investigation into the proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) to weaken regulations that require polluters to inform the public about toxic releases.

http://lautenberg.senate.gov/~lautenberg/press/2003/01/2006327A41.html

 

Smithsonian Agreement Angers Filmmakers 
Some of the biggest names in documentary filmmaking have denounced a recent agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime Networks Inc. that they say restricts makers of films and television shows using Smithsonian materials from offering their work to public television or other non-Showtime broadcast outlets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/arts/television/01smit.html

 

Orwellian

 

Justice Department Subpoenas Reach Far Beyond Google

In its effort to uphold the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA), the U.S. Department of Justice is leaving no stone unturned. Its widely reported issuance of subpoenas to Internet search companies AOL, MSN, Google, and Yahoo is just the tip of the iceberg: The government has demanded information from at least 34 Internet service providers, search companies, and security software firms. http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184401156

 

Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program
Five former judges on the nation's most secretive court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush's domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal role in overseeing the surveillance program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/politics/29nsa.html

 

Internet Access

 

Berners-Lee Speaks Out in Favor of Net Neutrality

"Tim Berners-Lee, chief architect of the World Wide Web, says his world-changing invention would no longer be an "open information space" if broadband providers abandoned the principle of Net neutrality."

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1143499812060&call_pageid=968350072197&Star

 

 

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