Circling back

• The Romney campaign's Zac Moffat and RNC digital strategy director Tyler Brown plan to recap their campaign strategy at an RNC on Dec 6. National Journal reports the post-mortem may be a chance for Moffat to address the criticism which, deserved or no, arrived at his doorstep in the wake of the campaign.

• The Romney campaign plans to hand over documentation of its digital campaign efforts to the RNC's digital team, Kate Kaye reports at Ad Age, along with donor lists, event attendance sheets and other pieces of digital ephemera that might be of use to the national committee. Kaye writes:

  The document pass-along will complement the Romney campaign data that will eventually be provided to the RNC. Information on donors and volunteers collected by the joint fundraising committee of the Romney campaign and the RNC -- emails, addresses, which events they attended, etc. -- will be transferred to the RNC.

  "This will increase overnight the RNC donor file" by a massive amount, said Zac Moffatt, who served as digital director for the Romney 2012 campaign. "This will dwarf anything Republicans have done before," he said regarding the transfer of data and digital campaign information. Mr. Moffatt previously worked as RNC director of political education.

Around the web

• Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is asking for input on Reddit on his proposal to ban new regulations or burdens on the Internet for two years.

• Is Issa in for a rough day? His AMA was scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m., and Reddut users are posing some tough questions.

• In the Wall Street Journal, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Personal Democracy Media's Andrew Rasiej call for a volunteer technology corps modeled on the National Guard.

• President Obama signed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act.

• For the New York Times, Lawrence Downes writes that a new version of the STEM Jobs act is still problematic because it would eliminate a visa category for people from countries with a low immigration rate to the U.S.

• A federal court in Pennsylvania ruled that law enforcement officials can track an individual's location using so-called anti-WiFi moocher software, the Wall Street Journal reported.

• The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out if the use of online privacy tools leads to exposure to warrantless NSA surveillance.

• The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School released a report, "Post-Industrial Journalism," on how journalism should adapt to the changing present.

• TMZ denied that it was seeking a drone, but an NPR affiliate has already launched a drone program.

• For Nieman Lab, NPR digital staffers discuss the results of an experiment in geographically targeted Facebook posts on the pages for local stations.

• The New York Times hopes to keep Nate Silver.

• Two privacy groups have sent a letter to Facebook asking it reconsider its proposed changes to its governing structure and elimination of voting. Will Oremus from Slate wonders whether Facebook will let users vote on whether they can keep their voting rights. Casey Johnston wrote for ars technica that "Facebook's democratic process was an empty gesture that made all of us look bad."

• Trevor Potter, former FEC chair and the personal lawyer for Stephen Colbert's Super Pac effort, answered questions on Reddit.

• The White House announced the judges for the Equal Futures App Challenge, which is aimed at promoting civic education for girls "and/or inspires girls to serve as leaders in our democracy."

• A video visualizes one day of New York City transit activity with music based on General Transit Feed Specification date made available by the MTA.

• OpenStreetMap.org has undergone some design improvements.

• Some store mannequins are now set up with technology to observe or collect data on customers.

International

• For Wired, Ethan Zuckerman wrote about technology innovators in Africa.

• CNN looked at how technology could play a role in African elections.

• Infojustice highlighted what it called "Germany’s Bad, and Illegal, Proposal to Require 'Ancillary Copyright' Licensing of Internet Search," which could move forward in German parliament this week, and where Google has taken a public role this week in opposition. A commentator for Germany's public broadcasting service criticized Google's campaign, calling it hypocritical, and writing that "Google is not the Robin Hood of Internet Freedom."

  On Twitter, the association of German news publishers compared search engines' aggregation of news content to store robbery.

• Reuters reported on how cable companies in Europe are in a better position than telecom companies when it comes to providing fast Internet.

• The Open Australia Foundation has launched the Right to Know platform to simplify Freedom of Information requests.

• A Russian Supreme Court ruling puts more pressure on Internet service providers to block websites without direct interference from the government, the Moscow Times reported.

• The European Commission has stated that credit card companies that blocked donations to Wikileaks didn't do anything wrong. Julian Assange claimed that "hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the extrajudicial banking blockade against WikiLeaks," Reuters reported.

• Both Amazon and Google were denied acceptance to a British government platform to showcase services that are pre-approved for public-sector bodies, TechweekEurope reported.

• British news broadcaster ITN has launched TruthLoader, a YouTube channel to showcase amateur video from news hotspots worldwide, in cooperation with Storyful, and an accompanying subreddit discussion group.

• The French Jewish Students Union has filed a summons against Twitter, requesting the identities of users behind anti-Semitic tweets posted in October.

• Jordan's National Library is helping to develop a policy to bring software piracy below 50 percent over the next three years.