Every year, the #SupremeCourt justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Using our new database, you can now search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
Federal Judge Rules That ProPublica’s Lawsuit Over #Military Court Access Should Move Forward
The U.S. government lost its bid to dismiss part of the #lawsuit, which would force the military to comply with a #law meant to make the military justice system more transparent.
Clarence Thomas Acknowledges Undisclosed #RealEstate Deal With Harlan Crow and Discloses Private Jet Flights
The new filing comes after ProPublica’s reporting on the #SupremeCourt justice’s beneficial relationship with the billionaire GOP megadonor. Thomas also reported three private jet trips provided by Crow.
They seek to obtain #research access to internal #Microsoft data to check whether and how the company is making sure its not-so-intelligent #AI#Copilot isn't bullshitting around in dangerous ways.
Despite Major Reform to #Military Justice System, #Navy Still Leaves Public in Dark
As President #Biden announces major reforms to how the military prosecutes #SexualAssault, the U.S. Navy is still shrouding those court proceedings in secrecy and fighting a ProPublica lawsuit to make such cases public.
Whenever you’re on the Internet, your ISP may collect information about you, even if it’s just the IP addresses you are assigned.
TekSavvy is the only ISP in #Canada (AFAIK) to publish a quarterly Transparency Report documenting the requests we got from law enforcement agencies, how we handled them, and what we disclosed to them.
Today, we’re reporting on Q3 of 2022, and I’m summarizing that report here.
These Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) impact our lives greatly.
That is why we have designated 17 VLOPs and 2 VLOSEs to meet the full range of new obligations under our Digital Services Act (#DSA) within four months.
This will empower users, protect minors, reduce disinformation and increase #transparency.
🇩🇪 Meilenstein für Transparenz und Pressefreiheit: Britischer High Court lässt die Berufung von Wikileaks-Gründer Julian #Assange gegen seine Auslieferung an die USA zu, weil zweifelhaft ist, ob seine Meinungsfreiheit in den USA überhaupt geschützt ist.
Die heutige Gerichtsentscheidung gibt Hoffnung, dass europäische Menschenrechte und Gerichte die Aufdeckung von Unrecht, Machtmissbrauch, Korruption und Kriegsverbrechen schützen, ohne Freund und Feind mit zweierlei Maßstäben zu messen. Ich wünsche mir, dass aus der von den USA gewollten Abschreckung von Whistleblowern und Journalisten weltweit ihre Ermutigung durch ein Grundsatzurteil wird.
Gleich um 15 Uhr veranstalte ich ein Webinar mit Rechtsanwalt Sören Schomburg aus Assanges Verteidigungsteam und Marie Wasilewski als Sprecherin des Aktivistenbündnisses FreeAssange.EU, um über die Gerichtsentscheidung und die nächsten Schritte zu sprechen - schaut zu! https://peertube.european-pirates.eu/w/qJosg7swHC3qRTvtJX1U2s
🇬🇧The British High Court today allowed Wikileaks founder Julian #Assange's appeal against his extradition to the US. This decision gives hope that European human rights and courts will protect the exposure of injustice, abuses of power, corruption and war crimes without applying double standards to friend and foe. I hope that instead of deterring whistleblowers and journalists worldwide, as intended by the USA, they will be encouraged by the US changing its mind, or a landmark judgement at the end of proceedings.
The fact that EU Commission President von der Leyen remains silent on the case is shameful, but indicative of the mother of #chatcontrol plans, who wants to keep her own official text messages with pharmaceutical companies secret. For me as a Pirate, #transparency of government action is the indispensable basis of any democracy.
'A cache of documents related to the Tuskegee syphilis study — a 40-year experiment that tracked infected Black men without treating them — has now been digitized for public use, the National Library of Medicine announced.'
It seems that Alphv (BlackCat) has re-encrypted Henry Schein, Inc. again. This appears to be the third time the TAs have locked the firm.
People may remember BlackCat's post ranting about Coveware and their alleged advice to Henry Schein that led to BlackCat re-encrypting Schein the first time.
On November 22, the firm announced another disruption.
A first-in-the-nation transparency act on Hochul’s desk would name those involved in financial crimes and potential money laundering
A corporate lobbying group backed by Koch Industries is quietly pressing the Democratic New York governor, Kathy Hochul, not to sign a landmark transparency bill unmasking the owners of shell corporations involved in financial crimes, wage theft and tenant abuses.
High-profile real estate donors to Hochul’s campaign also oppose new disclosure requirements for limited liability companies, or LLCs, a notoriously opaque corporate structure that can thwart attempts at both civil and criminal law enforcement by concealing owners’ true identities.
Prominent academic publishers agreed that #ChatGPT and Co. should not be listed as the author of a scientific paper, as AI is not responsible for the content. Did everyone listen? We conducted a search in WoS and Scopus and found 14 papers with ChatGPT as the "author":
... including a framework to evaluate models from several sustainability-related angles, including #EnergyEfficiency, #carbon intensity, #transparency, and #social implications
How do you approach questions of sustainability & #AIethics in your #GeoAI work?
#Virginia Law Allows the Papers of #University Presidents to Stay Secret, Limiting Public Oversight
A provision in state law exempts college presidents’ “working papers and correspondence” from disclosure even after they step down — as we found out when we asked about one ex-president’s role in campus expansions that uprooted a Black neighborhood.
Als Mitinitiator danke ich Dietmar Köster (SPD), @SLagodinsky (Grüne), @MartinSonneborn (PARTEI) und Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) für die Unterstützung. Möge die Bundesregierung erwachen!
🇬🇧46 Members of the European Parliament today make a final request to UK Home Secretary James Cleverly to protect Julian #Assange from looming extradition to the US.
Our message: Europe is watching the UK and its respect for human rights and the Human Rights Convention closely. Britain's relationship with the EU is at stake.