Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab

Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab
David Banisar, 2002-01-28

Industry's push for new exemptions from the Freedom of Information Act is unnecessary and dangerous.

Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-28
Anonymous (3 replies)

Banisar has this completely backwards. The FOIA exemption is sought to gain access to information by the government. The fact is that the information regarding the critical infrastructure is in the hands of the private sector. The government has asked industry for this information. Industry has ...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-28
H. Carvey

At the very least, Banisar puts his name on and supports what he says.

And I can agree with what he says. Companies don't want this information known. They don't want to correct the issues they're protecting, but they also don't want them to come under public scrutiny....

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-29
Anonymous

I'm gonna be anonymous too, since you are too afraid to say your name, so I'm not gonna say my name either...

"political activists"
what's wrong with them? are you against them? are you in favor of democracy or communism after all?

HA!...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-29
Anonymous

I agree with you largely, though I know where Banisar is coming from. Industry shouldn't be specifically protected more than they normally are--particularly with auditing information. But why are they even mentioned? That's the real question. When did the Fortune 500 become part of the governmen...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-28
Anonymous

What kind of ISO is going to hand over a risk assessment that can be obtained under the FOIA???

Answer........A stupid one!!!...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-29
Democrazy (1 replies)

Democracy which essentially means power to the people, is reduced to a caricature of itself in the United States of (aren't we f'in Great) America. Information on things that affect the people should be available to the people, there is no more to it than that. The governement should act as a refer...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-02-02
Anonymous

I think you forget to realize that most of the crap that's coming up now is because of 8 years of the most crooked presidency in history. Our former president should be indicted with all the other CEO's that ripped off the common person, not to forget the Big 5 accounting firms and the Vulture Capi...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-29
Anonymous

Excellent column. Coupled with the Bush administration's refusal to provide infomration to the General Accounting Office concerning Enron and the Vice President's
Energy Task Force, it's becoming clear that Bush has a fondness for secrecy that we haven't seen since Nixon.
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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-30
Still Anonymous

A power utility will, as a matter of normal commercial prudence, know what it's five biggest vulnerabilities are. And it will, within the cost constraints of making a profit, allocate mitigation for those vulnerabilities. They may still be the biggest 5 vulnerabilities, or some of the previous vul...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-01-31
Anonymous

Sounds like the rich and powerful want to be sure they stay that way. At democracy's and truth's exspense...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-02-01
Anonymous

And did you hear about the new airline "security" system? Check out the front page at washingtonpost.com Welcome to the police state! The terrorists seem to be winning after all!...

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-02-05
Black Helicopter Pilot

Banisar has wonderful company in his paranoia....

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Reject the Corporate Secrecy Grab 2002-02-07
Sara Thustra

Thanks for an excellent article. No matter what linguistic obfuscations the lawyers, politicians and various fatcats use to disguise what they're doing, the fact remains that he who is informed is in power. Anything that restricts the people's access to information that affects their lives and liv...

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Sarah T. nailed it. 2002-02-08
BHP

"It may very well be the hacker community that ends up holding the key to rebalancing things in the public's favor...(Viva La Information, Sara T.) "

Clearly, Banisar and the hackers are on the same team....

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