Thursday, June 17, 2004

The Privatization for Profit of Public Information

ON FOIA FRONT, MORE AGENCIES CONTRACT OUT
The government is increasingly relying on private contractors to handle
Freedom of Information requests.
By Christopher Lee, Washington Post

PUBLIC INFORMATION, PRIVATE PROFIT?
Long publicly available, a database detailing federal contracts has
been outsourced ... to a federal contractor.
By Michael Scherer, Mother Jones

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