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FOIA requests must be fulfilled GRATIS if they request data that is CAPTCHA-encumbered or unreachable to some demographics of people
Post Reply RetroFed Forum Forum Index » New Rules (proposals of laws that will fix problems) ⚖
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Joined: 2023-07-30
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California’s state secretary along with many other state secretaries impose a Google reCAPTCHA on people trying to lookup a business’s registration records. This forces everyone to perform uncompensated forced labor for a private privacy-offending tech giant. Google reCAPTCHA has been found responsible to have forced 819 million manhours of labor of a 13 year span.

So new rule:

  • If a CAPTCHA is used as a barrier to access public information and the public makes a Freedom of Information Act request, it must be fulfilled at no cost and even postal costs must be covered by the agency doing the processing.
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