[118545] in Cypherpunks
John Young the information architect, from Wired News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Fri Oct 1 16:07:38 1999
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 13:46:35 -0600
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/22045.html
He Digs 'Through' Gov't Muck
by Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com)
12:30 p.m. 1.Oct.99.PDT
Ask John Young what puts a grin on his
face and he'll give you a ready response:
Unearthing government documents, the
more obscure the better.
Over the last three years, Young has
compiled what is probably the world's
most extensive public collection of over
4,000 files about privacy and technology,
often related to encryption and free
speech, and always of interest to the
thousands of visitors who frequent
jya.com every day.
Young, an accomplished 63-year-old New
York City architect who has taught at
Columbia University, views his Web site
both as a service to the Internet public
and an experiment in information design
and collection.
When Young phones government
agencies to ask them for electronic
copies of documents for his collection, to
submit freedom of information act
requests, or to pore through the
labyrinthine Federal Register each morning
(on Tuesday he found the FCC's new
wiretapping rules), he's acting just like a
journalist. But he doesn't consider himself
one.
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