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Legal Publisher, December, 2006

Cambridge University Press (CUP; New York) has published "Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age," a new book that examines the evolution of the trend toward governmental openness and how technological developments have assisted the disclosure and dissemination of information. It includes a discussion of the global efforts to restrict secrecy and provides a guide to those areas where "the battle over secrecy is most intense," CUP said. It includes studies of cases from many countries dealing with how trends such as privatization, globalization and the networking of security agencies are complicating the fight against secrecy. The book's mission is to illustrate why governmental transparency matters and why the struggle to achieve openness is so...

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