EFF Offers Search tool for FOIA documents

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has unveiled a new search tool to sift through their collection of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

"Until recently, documents obtained under FOIA often gathered dust in filing cabinets," said David Sobel, EFF Senior Counsel and director of the organization's FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project. "We believe that government information should be widely available and easy to research, and our new search engine makes that a reality."

I recommend the material on the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse and DCS 3000 surveillance program, and the Department of Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System and ADVISE data-mining project.

Try it here... [press release]

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