Tag Archives: wikileaks
Full docs or it didn’t happen
Cassie Findlay In the issues paper ‘Access’, developed after The Recordkeeping Roundtable workshop ‘Reinventing Archival Methods’[2], Roundtable co-founder Barbara Reed described the information and technology landscape that we live in as characterised by ‘the ‘release’ of public information all over … Continue reading
Without a trace: WikiLeaks as unperson
This week the leak site Cryptome.org posted ‘NARA Leaks Wikileaks Citations’, explaining that if you do a collection search at http://research.archives.gov/ – the US National Archives and Records Administration’s primary search tool – using the word ‘WikiLeaks’ the results are blocked. However the filter does … Continue reading
Without a trace: Policies of unaccountability
… A number of what can only be described as ‘policies of unaccountability’ will also be released. One such document is the 2005 document ‘Policy on Assigning Detainee Internment Serial Numbers’. This document is concerned with discreetly ‘disappearing’ detainees into … Continue reading
Stilgherrian on information release; orderly and disorderly
Transcript of talk by Stilgherrian from the Freedom of information? panel discussion held in Sydney on February 29 2012. Thanks Cass, thanks everyone. Yes, it’s somehow appropriate we start this, I think, with the disorderly side of accessing information because what I’d like … Continue reading
Philip Dorling on leaks, whistleblowing, archives, access to information and the behaviour of governments
Transcript of talk by Dr Philip Dorling from the Freedom of information? panel discussion held in Sydney on February 29 2012. Just as I was walking across the very wet car park this evening I was reminded of just how fragile information can be, … Continue reading
Are mechanisms for information access that we have now supporting a just and functional society? If not, what else?
Transcript of opening remarks by Cassie Findlay from the Freedom of information? panel discussion held in Sydney on February 29 2012. A year on from The Recordkeeping Roundtable’s first event; ‘After Wikileaks, is is all over for The Archives?’, we return … Continue reading
Freedom of information? discussion panel: podcasts
On a very wet Wednesday evening in February, we heard from three fascinating speakers in our Freedom of information? panel discussion on orderly and disorderly methods of information access and release, government secrecy and what needs to change. Our speakers … Continue reading
Mosaic theory, universal surveillance and unlimited recordkeeping
‘“Mosaic theory” describes a basic precept of intelligence gathering: Disparate items of information, though individually of limited or no utility to their possessor, can take on added significance when combined with other items of information.’ [1] Mosaic theory was what … Continue reading
“El Derecho a Saber” (“The Right to Know”)
How recordkeeping systems can reveal the organisation of oppression “On March 25, Human Rights Ombudsman Sergio Morales’ wife, Gladys Monterroso, was abducted by unknown assailants and released some 15 hours later after she was beaten and raped. Early indications suggested … Continue reading
WikiLeaks and the politics of information
On September 1 Recordkeeping Roundtable co-founder Barbara Reed gave a lecture at Monash University at the invitation of Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics on ‘Wikileaks and the politics of information’. In the talk, Barbara covers a wide range of … Continue reading
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