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GOVERNMENT SERVICES. U.S. Department of State Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) This site is designed to assist you in making a request for records controlled by the U.S. Department of State. If you would like to request records from another agency, you may wish to view a list of Other Federal Agencies’ FOIA Web Sites . Information Access Guide – if you would like to request Department of State Records, please follow the instructions in our comprehensive guide. This guide also includes information on fees, expeditious handling, and appeals. Requesting Department of State Records – basic instructions for filing a FOIA request.

Electronic FOIA Request – make a FOIA request online. FOIA/Privacy Act Reference Material – laws, regulations, policies, and administrative guidelines relating to information access programs. Electronic Reading Room – records available to the public including final opinions and administrative rulings, administrative staff manuals, and policy guidelines. For Department of State Collections, go to Declassified/Released Document Collections . Reference. 1-20-13 Have not downloaded into html...do this next time. Collections. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. A Message From Anonymous To The Global (R)evolution. Your Life Torn Open, essay 1: Sharing is a trap. This article was taken from the March 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. The author of The Cult Of The Amateurargues that if we lose our privacy we sacrifice a fundamental part of our humanity.

Every so often, when I'm in Amsterdam, I visit the Rijksmuseum to remind myself about the history of privacy. I go there to gaze at a picture called The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, which was painted by Jan Vermeer in 1663. It is of an unidentified Dutch woman avidly reading a letter. Vermeer's picture, to borrow a phrase from privacy advocates Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren, is a celebration of the "sacred precincts of private and domestic life". Today, as social media continues radically to transform how we communicate and interact, I can't help thinking with a heavy heart about The Woman in Blue.

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