Commercial satellite imagery could be put off-limits

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SATELLITE PICTURES GOING DARK?

 

Posted By: Kaspel <Send E-Mail>

Wednesday, 8 September 2004, 10:11 p.m.

 

You might be able to see the hurricanes heading for Florida. Maybe. But just

about all other commercial satellite imagery could be put off-limits, if a

new Senate bill goes through as planned.

 

The measure, " Nondisclosure of Certain Products of Commercial Satellite

Operations, " would exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

unclassified, commercial satellite pictures bought up by the government, as

well as " any... other product that is derived from such data. "

 

" Almost every clause of the proposed exemption embodies patent hostility to

the conventions of open government and public access to government

information, " Secrecy News fumes.

 

For example, " maps, reports, and any other unclassified government analyses

or communications that are in some way 'derived from' a commercial satellite

image would all of a sudden become inaccessible. "

 

News reports would get a whole lot thinner, too. As Barbara Cochran, head of

the Radio-Television News Directors Association, notes, the press relies on

satellite pictures constantly, to track everything from weather to war to

population shifts. " Recent uses include coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan

conflicts; nuclear and other WMD sites in Iran, Pakistan, India, Libya,

North Korea, China, and other countries; flooding in Bangladesh and Eastern

India; deforestation in Brazil; wildfires and tornadoes in the United

States; and refugee crises in the Sudan [and] Rwanda, " she writes.

 

If this regulation passes, much of that imagery – not classified in any way,

and collected by a private company, not a government agency -- would vanish

from public view.

 

" In essence, " Cochran says in a letter to Congress, " this new FOIA exemption

would result in taxpayer dollars being used to preclude the media from

adequately informing the public about matters of critical importance that in

no way implicate the national security. "

 

THERE'S MORE: " The Justice Department has asked an appellate court to keep

its arguments secret for a case in which privacy advocate John Gilmore is

challenging federal requirements to show identification before boarding an

airplane, " the Washington Post reports.

 

 

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