Massachusetts Institute of Technology are celebrating
the Fourth of July with a new Internet service that will let citizens create
dossiers on government officials.
Website turns tables on government officials
ARTICLE:
http://business.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/07/04/website_turns_tables_on_gover
ment_officials
By Hiawatha
Bray, Globe Staff, 7/4/2003
Annoyed by the prospect of a massive new
federal surveillance system, two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology are celebrating the Fourth of July with a new Internet service that
will let citizens create dossiers on government officials.
The
system will start by offering standard background information on politicians,
but then go one bold step further, by asking Internet users to submit their own
intelligence reports on government officials -- reports that will be published
with no effort to verify their accuracy.
"It's sort of a citizen's
intelligence agency," said Chris Csikszentmihalyi, assistant professor at the
MIT Media Lab.
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