The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "privacy" ...
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Getting to Yes
LaFleur gives fantastic tips on how to get what you need through a FOI request. She even gives actual examples of being told no and how to turn that into a 'yes'.
Tags: FOIA tips; HIPPA; privacy; retention schedules
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What They Know
This Powerpoint presentation for the panel, Privacy: Where does access end? by Angwin lays out just how much can be found out about a person on the internet and how to use anonymity online.
Tags: privacy; internet; security; personal information
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Data Privacy Scorecard: What To Watch in 2012
Sableman highlights key legal proposals, pertaining to data privacy issues, to be monitored in 2012.
Tags: data; privacy; data privacy; privacy regulation; data regulation;
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Open Records - Legal Road Blocks and Resources
This tipsheet provides links to information illuminating the legal landscape of access to information under state and federal statutes.
Tags: private individuals; decendents; privacy rights; corporations; government employees
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Spycraft: Keeping your sources private
Doig discusses different ways to protect your privacy when working on investigations. This Powerpoint presentation covers how to keep internet searches private, how to make untraceable calls, encryption and decryption programs, and tricking keyloggers.
Tags: security; internet; online searching; search engines; investigative reporting; sources; privacy
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You have the right to remain silent: FOIA in the Bush Administration
This powerpoint presentation discusses how policy regarding the Freedom of Information Act has changed in recent years. Cochran uses graphs and charts to illustrate trends in the amount of data requests filed and number actually filled by the government. He also discusses the appeals process, and speculates about how the issue may change in the future.
Tags: FOIA; public records; federal government; Department of Defense; Bush; Rumsfeld; privacy; data negotiation
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Empirical Research on Jury Selection
Rose provides findings from research on the representativeness of juries and information about jurors and privacy.
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Investigating Political Corruption at the Highest Levels in Latin America
Disponible en Espanol: 2889. Santoro explains the threats he received and the invasions of privacy he endured after communicating with a judge about the investigation of Serbian drug-trafficking in Argentina. For Santoro, these threats were neither the first not the last, but he says they are mild when compared to the situations of journalists in Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. He explains the dangers these journalists face and points out that, because of weak institutions, this is a problem that is not likely to end anytime soon.
Tags: Latin American journalism; corruption; politics; international journalism; drug-trafficking; investigations
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Access to Electronic Records
The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press released this helpful state-by-state guide to obtaining government data in the spring of 2003. The first fourteen pages cover various changes being made on the FOIA frontier, like invasion of privacy laws and what exactly constitutes a public record. The actual guide includes the law governing FOIA in that particular state, cases and opinions that have altered it, and fees and software that might be related.
Tags: CAR; electronic records; data; databases; FOIA; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; open records