Suit Filed Against Army for Blog Surveillance Data
The Electronic Frontier Foundation ("EFF") has filed suit against the Department of Defense ("DOD") in its attempt to get information about the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell ("AWRAC").
News reports in the Fall of 2006 stated that AWRAC scanned the internet for operational security violations found in postings of both official and unofficial army web sites. EFF filed a FOIA request to both DOD and the Army seeking information about the AWRAC program in November of 2006. EFF sought expedited processing of its requests. The DOD denied expedited processing of the request (a decision upheld on administrative appeal), and the Army had not responded to the request for expedition by the date the complaint was filed.
The first order of business will be a decision on whether EFF's request should be given expedited treatment. As there is very little case law on this issue, any decision will help future FOIA requesters and agencies in the treatment of expedited processing requests.
audio surveillance and army for blog surveillance data have 1 thing in common: their goal to find information. the army conducted surveillance, and did not make the findings public knowledge, & i think it is understandable. after all, evidence collection and beauracracies like the army require time and energy to complete these types of projects.
Posted by: john halpern | May 04, 2007 at 10:05 AM
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there were some interesting audio surveillance sites listed there.
Posted by: bill hauser | August 04, 2007 at 11:53 PM