Twitter, struggling financially amid a lagging stock price, has decided that removing a key source of public information its service provides is in its best interests. The strange decision means it has effectively closed a […]
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Once Advocating Transparency, Etsy Joins In Use Of Secret Irish Companies To Hide Information
Etsy Inc., the popular marketplace for artisan goods, is making moves to ensure its offshore tax cutting set-up remains a secret. The Brooklyn, New York based company recently took advantage of some laws in Ireland […]
Swedish Prosecutors Found Purposely Not Interviewing Wikileaks Founder Over Sham Sex Charges
Supporters of Julian Assange, the founder of transparency website WikiLeaks, have stated their concern that Assange is the victim of unfair treatment by Swedish prosecutors in a matter completely unrelated to WikiLeaks. In addition to […]
Even China Wants The Shadowy Trans Pacific Partnership To Be More Open
China has expressed strong interest in ensuring the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be transparent and open, raising interesting questions about the Obama administration’s insistence on unprecedented secrecy. Although it has insisted that it will […]
New Document Leaks Show Iran Gave Nuclear Materials To Murderous Sudan
According to documents released by transparency group WikiLeaks last week an embassy cable by Saudi diplomats in Khartoum says that Iran sent advanced nuclear equipment and centrifuges to Sudan in 2012. The document, marked “very secret,” […]
New Website Shines Bright Light On Shady World Of Campaign Finance
Politicians will find it harder to cover the tracks of questionable campaign funding thanks to a soon to be launched website partly funded by the Sunlight Foundation and a public Kickstarter campaign. The Sunlight Foundation […]
What Is Our Government Telling Us? Federal Employee Data Breach Now Said To Compromise 18 Million Records
Word has leaked early Tuesday that the personal data of an estimated 18 million current, former and prospective federal employees was stolen by attackers in a cyber breach at the Office of Personnel Management, far […]
Federal Government Caught Using School Lunch Programs To Track Children
The Hazleton Area School District in Pennsylvania will now provide free meals to all students, regardless of need. But there’s a gigantic catch: It is scanning students’ thumbprints to track all of their lunch purchases […]
World’s Digital Watchdog Accuses Facebook of Selective Censorship
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a “leading non-profit Organization defending civil liberties in the digital world” has found that Facebook differentiates from country to country in the number of “content restrictions” it has fulfilled in […]
Superpowers Still Clinging To Secrecy As Julian Assange Marks Third Year Inside Ecuadorian Embassy
This weekend marked three years since Julian Assange slipped into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, England, claiming political asylum. Already a strong supporter of rights and transparency, the president of the Ecuador has now said […]
UK Government Caught Deleting Records Just Days Before New Freedom Of Information Act Took Effect
Just weeks before the United Kingdom, under Prime Minister Tony Blair, adopted a Freedom of Information (FOI) act, the Prime Minister’s office conveniently adopted a policy of its own: Automatically deleting emails more than three […]
Don’t Be Evil? Google Is Now One Of America’s Largest Lobbyists
Before the Google boys were billionaires a couple dozen times over, the company promised to Do No Evil. Oh how times change. In addition to being one of the world’s largest privacy invaders, Google is […]
Whitehouse Dinner Highlights Administration’s Transparency Issues
Media types often remark that the Obama administration as one of the least press-friendly of modern times, with a track record of stonewalling, investigating and generally snubbing the media. Yet on Saturday night, media’s most […]