That Moment in Time: FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th Feb 2021

The Polish government has proposed a new law to stop social media platforms deleting content or banning users who do not break Polish Laws. Social networks could be fined up to 50 million Zlotys ($13.4 million USD) to restore deleted posts or accounts. The new draft act appeared on the Polish Ministry of Justice website on February 1, 2021. See: https://www.gov.pl/web/sprawiedliwosc/zachecamy-do-zapoznania-sie-z-projektem-ustawy-o-ochronie-wolnosci-uzytkownikow-serwisow-spolecznosciowych

It is available only in Polish. A link to it is in the National Law Review article mentioned below.

To read more see:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55678502

and

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/polish-government-to-pass-law-will-allow-it-more-control-over-internet-content-and

To read previous articles on the European Union, Digital Services Act, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and more see the IAJGS Records Access Alert archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts. You must be registered to access the archives.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

[Records-Access-Alerts] (Denmark) Legislation will Require Facebook and Google to Pay for Media Content (Link Tax)

Date: 21 February 2021 at 9:44:48 am AEST

Denmark appears it will follow Australia and other countries requiring technology giants such as Facebook and Google to pay for content by media organizations on their platforms, i.e. a “link tax”.

Denmark’s Minister of Culture, Joy Mogensen, said she would put forward legislation next month would require technology companies to pay publishers if news content is posted on their website.

Recently, the IAJGS Records Access Alert reported on Australia doing the same proposed legislation and Facebook threatening to stop their news source in Australia.

The European Union passed a copyright directive in 2019 which encourages such a link tax by providing for minimum standards for all EU member countries. While the EU directive does not call for negotiations by media organizations, the Australian pending legislation does and that is what the Danish proposal will do. The Danish proposal says if no agreement is reached between the publishers and the technology giants then Denmark’s copyright license board would settle the disputes.

Facebook states, as only 4 percent of content on Facebook is news articles, there is no economic argument for the company to pay for news. Minister Mogensen rejects that argument.

To read more see:

https://eutoday.net/news/business-economy/2021/facebook-google-to-pay-for-media-content

P.S. As of Tuesday afternoon 23rd Feb, it was announced that Facebook and the Australian Government had agreed to work on a new agreement which would see all 'hidden' sites/pages to be restored over the next few days.

[Records-Access-Alerts] (US) National Archives Proposed Rule on Collecting Information on Those Requesting Military Records

Date: 21 February 2021 at 9:24:48 am AEST

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has a proposed notice in the Federal Register regarding continuing to collect information from people requesting military records so that they can locate, identify, and provide the requested information.

The information collected via the SF 180 and eVetRecs is vital to NARA’s National Personnel Records Center, which stores and handles these records. They need this information to locate and release information from requested records.

This is a second request for public comment, the first published in the Federal Register on August 7, 2020 resulted in no responses being received.

To read the proposal see: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-02-22/pdf/2021-03452.pdf

If you plan to submit written comments they must be received by March 24, 2021.

Send any comments and recommendations on the proposed information collection in writing to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. You can find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Subject: [Records-Access-Alerts] (US-GA) HB 92 Vital Records Transfer and Embargo Dates

Date: 24 February 2021 at 6:42:18 pm AEST

There is a bill currently in the Georgia House, HB 92, that proposes to lower the embargo periods for birth records to 100 years and death, marriage, divorce and annulment dates for vital records to 75 years respectively. The records would then be transferred to the State Archives from the State Registrar. The bill may be read at: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/58923

Currently, the embargo periods are 125 years for birth records and 100 years from date of death, application for marriage, divorce, or annulment.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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ABSOLUTE PARDONS & CONDITIONAL PARDONS ..Convicts Trove Tuesday 23rd Feb 2021, convict records…

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I have also added some extra information on a select few convicts to illustrate just what you might find on other sites..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/02/absolute-pardons-conditional-pardons.html

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