Free Software Tool Aims To Fight Government Secrecy

This crowdfunded Freedom Of Information Act algorithm seeks to liberate guarded knowledge. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), first enacted in 1966 provides a way for citizens, activists, and journalists to coax information out of the government. The Government doesn't make this easy, but a new, already-successful crowdfunding project hopes to provide a solution by largely automating the FOIA process. Nine kinds of documents benefit from explicit exemptions to FOIA requests, including nation...