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FrontlineSMS Bring A Free, Innovative Solution To African Broadcasters
As TV and radio broadcast markets intensify across several liberalized African countries, broadcasters need to find solutions to create more interactive with their audiences and build loyalty among them. SMS is one of those. Read More »
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Larry Ellison, NSA Database Supplier, Approves Of NSA Surveillance
Larry Ellison is exceedingly rich and powerful. He is the third-most-wealthy person in the United States and runs Oracle, the database giant. And yet somehow, as he revealed during an interview on CBS Tuesday morning, he is hopelessly uninformed on the ramifications of NSA surveillance. Or, perhaps willfully uninformed. After all, the NSA is an Oracle client, which CBS didn't mention. Read More »
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More Aggressive Oversight Of Agency FOIA Compliance Is Needed, GAO Says
The government ombudsman for evaluating agencies’ compliance with the Freedom of Information Act should be more aggressive, a congressional auditor said on Tuesday. Read More »
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Obama’s Efforts to Control Media Are ‘Most Aggressive’ Since Nixon, Report Says
The President Barack Obama administration has “chilled the flow of information on issues of great public interest,” according to a Thursday report that amounts to an indictment of the president’s campaign pledge of a more open government. Read More »
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Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted. To do this reliably, we must reduce the surveillance capacity of the systems we use. Read More »
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The FOIA Machine: Software Saves Reporters From Government Hell
They say freedom isn’t free. And that’s certainly true of FOIA requests. Read More »
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The Obamacare Phone Number Is Having Issues Too
In his speech today on the glitches on Obamacare's healthcare.gov, President Obama mentioned a phone number for users to call and sign up for health care in case the website was down. But as fact-checking journalists quickly discovered, that number is having its own issues. Read More »
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The Public Intelligence Project: Creating A Culture Of Democracy
Freedom of expression is a fundamental civil liberty imperative to democracy. However, in societies throughout the world, it is at risk, and George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty Four is increasingly becoming more of a prediction of the future instead of far–fetched, fictional hyperbole... Read More »
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What The AP Subpoena Scandal Means For Your Electronic Privacy
The Justice Department’s snooping on journalists working for the Associated Press is an abuse of power in the broadest sense. But one reason the whole episode is controversial at all is because the Obama administration technically broke no rules. Read More »
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Why Do So Many American ‘Journalists’ Appear To Hate Actual Journalism?
The question was directed at Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who broke the story of NSA surveillance using material provided by on-the-lam leaker Edward Snowden. The person grilling Greenwald wasn’t a government prosecutor [...]. Read More »
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