Americans made more than 4 million requests to the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act in 2004, a high for a single year, according to a review by the Associated Press. Most of the increase came from the 1.5 million requests to the Social Security Administration, which reported twice as many last year than in 2003. Social Security officials said that most requests were from people seeking genealogical information.
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