Re: "Liberating America's secret, for-pay laws"

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault on Jan 08, 2013; 4:21pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Liberating-America-s-secret-for-pay-laws-tp5277p5278.html

All ISO standards are also behind a paywall.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:

"Did you know that vital parts of the US law are secret, and you're
only allowed to read them if you pay a standards body thousands of
dollars for the right to find out what the law of the land is?

Public.Resource.Org spent $7,414.26 buying privately-produced
technical public safety standards that have been incorporated into
U.S. federal law."

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret.html

-Glen

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