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South Dakota open government receives boost
NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for December 14, 2012
Sunlight Foundation’s 2012 Annual Report in video
Poderopedia Launches Public Beta with Crowdsourced Data Journalism
Consumers blindsided by secret settlements in hi-tech patent lawsuits
From Peter Scheer at the First Amendment Coalition of California:
Apple recently announced that it had reached a global settlement of its patent disputes with HTC, a producer of smartphones using Android, the Google-owned operating system for phones and tablets that compete head-on with Apple’s phones and tablets.
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A marathon freedom of information fight
From American Journalism Review:
In the Sixties, an era defined by the counterculture and social revolution, the University of California, Berkeley became a center of student activism. It was home to the Free Speech Movement, one of the era’s most influential student protests, and a wealth of civil rights and antiwar demonstrations. It was when Ronald Reagan, in his first public office as the state’s governor, campaigned to clean up the “mess” at Berkeley.
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AAUP Urges Resistance to Confidentiality Demands in Shared Governance
From Chronicle.com:
The American Association of University Professors plans to urge faculty members to resist being bound by pledges of confidentiality as a condition for involvement in shared governance at their colleges.
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Newly Released Drone Records Reveal Extensive Military Flights in US
From Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license records and a new map that tracks the location of done flights across the United States.
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