EFF's searchable archive of secret government docs
Richard from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez,Help Make Open Government a Reality (Thanks, Richard!)March 15-22 is Sunshine Week, an annual, non-partisan initiative to promote government transparency and the public's "right to know." EFF is celebrating by posting a heap of uncovered government documents online and launching a new search tool that lets the public search through them all by keyword. The documents cover cutting-edge digital civil liberties issues, like the Department of Homeland Security's data-mining projects, and FBI's surveillance technology, for example.
Information about these shadowy programs and policies would remain secret if EFF wasn't filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lawsuits to pry the documents out of the government's hands and into the sunlight, and we need people's support to keep it going! Please donate to EFF during Sunshine Week and help shine a light on government secrets!
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