Privacy Digest

I-Witness Video Blog: How to Search the RNC Intelligence documents: "So many choices. The NYPD RNC Intelligence documents are available on four websites which each offer different possibilities for searching the files.

Since none of the available navigation tools will answer every need, the serious researcher should consult more than one navigation aid. While the indexes provided by the New York Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times are helpful guides which enable the reader to grasp the broad features of the surveillance program, they do not capture every instance in which a group or individual appears in the documents. For example, the Times index does not include any citations for I-Witness Video, which is written about on five pages of the intelligence documents. Nor does the Times list 'Stonewalk,' an event organized by family members of September 11th victims, which is cited on four pages of the documents. The NYCLU's index appears to be more complete, but even so, activist Lisa Fithian, whose name appears on eighteen pages of the documents, is cited as appearing on only thirteen pages by the civil liberties union. The I-Witness Video search capability is the most successful in ferreting out each citation; it uses optical character recognition (OCR) software to make the scanned documents searchable as text, but is occasionally inaccurate because that conversion is imperfect.
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