August 19, 2011

EPIC FOIA DHS

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The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Homeland Security on the government's deployment of body scanner technology on streets and in roving vans.

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These are the three pages of the FOIA report that did not come from a scanner manufacturer's publicly available brochures and website, and that were not the publicly available agenda for a scanner industry conference.

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Related: DODDOACID, one of a suite of six Redaction Paintings made in 2007 by Jenny Holzer from FOIA documents, and acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 2010 [nga.gov]

FOIA Note #20 (August 15, 2011) Government Transparency [epic.org via @wagnerblog]

art | dc | scott sforza, wh producer | posted by greg at August 19, 2011 8:50 AM