Collaborate Disseminate
For those of us who were paying a modicum of attention to the part of the news around 1999 which did not involve the imminent demise of humanity due to …read more Continue reading The NSA’s Furby Artificial Intelligence Scare: FOIA Documents Provide Insight
Motherboard is publishing several hundred pages of documents we obtained from police departments by using Freedom of Information requests. Continue reading Here Are Hundreds of Pages of Official Documents About Predictive Policing in America
This is Thanksgiving weekend in the United States; the country’s most congested travel weekend of the year. It’s common knowledge, and it’s easy to infer that this holiday weekend is one of the busiest for air travel. But can you prove it empirically? Apparently so. [Bertrand Fan] filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the WiFi traffic at San Francisco International Airport and used the access point data from the past year and a half to show which days were most congested in the airport.
FOIA actually has its own website which boils down the act as follows:
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Continue reading Mining Airport WiFi Data: This Sunday Is The Worst Day To Fly
How this self-described FOIA-nerd uses city data to make your life better. Continue reading Why Seattle Accidentally Sent This Activist the First 256 Characters of 32 Million Internal Emails
The US government exposed dozens of people’s’ personal details, including social security numbers, due to an online mishap on a public transparency portal. Continue reading Social Security numbers exposed on US government transparency site
Staff at the Bureau of Land Management were instructed to share photos of fossil fuel development on the agency’s Flickr page, FOIA documents reveal. Continue reading Public Lands Agency Ordered Staff to Promote Oil and Gas on Social Media
One of science’s most important publications assumes science journalists don’t know how to do their jobs. Continue reading ‘Nature’ Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking
Documents obtained by Motherboard show the City of London Police shares its surveillance technology with a UK competition authority. Continue reading Don’t Have Surveillance Gear? UK Cops Will Share
Ever wondered why every British police force seems to give you the same answers? Continue reading What Really Happens When You FOIA UK Police
Meet the only person who has ever had their pilot’s license taken away from them for flying a drone. Continue reading The FAA Revoked an Airplane Pilot’s License for Flying a Drone