Collaborate Disseminate
Travis Kalanick and Pittsburgh’s mayor have a chummy relationship, emails obtained using Pennsylvania’s Right to Know Act show. Continue reading Uber CEO and Pittsburgh Mayor Discussed Reducing State Fines, Emails Reveal
This new technique allows users to easily design and manipulate the transparency of objects. Continue reading ‘Origami-Like’ Objects Can Instantly Change Their Transparency
Uber and Waze are following an example that was originally set by the surveillance industry. Continue reading Local Governments Are Letting Silicon Valley Skirt Public Disclosure Laws
Dallas police have asked the Texas attorney general to prevent the “mandatory” release of documents relating to its use of a bomb robot to kill a suspect. Continue reading Dallas Police Want to Suppress Bomb Robot Evidence That’s ‘Embarrassing’
Facebook deleted two videos showing a standoff between Korryn Gaines and a SWAT team, who later shot her to death. Continue reading Facebook Needs a Public Editor
You don’t have to be in the “Hillary for Prison” movement to understand that Clinton’s use of a private email server is terrible for democracy. Continue reading Reminder: Public Officials Using Private Email Servers Is Indefensible
This is a good summary article on the fallibility of DNA evidence. Most interesting to me are the parts on the proprietary algorithms used in DNA matching: William Thompson points out that Perlin has declined to make public the algorithm that drives the program. "You do have a black-box situation happening here," Thompson told me. "The data go in, and… Continue reading The Fallibility of DNA Evidence
Google put app developers on notice last week, urging them to comply with a new set of privacy policies designed to better promote transparency it plans on enforcing this summer.
Continue reading Google Aims For Transparency With New Chrome Web Store Policies
Reddit has received a National Security Letter. I have long discounted warrant canaries. A gag order is serious, and this sort of high-school trick won’t fool judges for a minute. But so far they seem to be working. Now we have another question: now what? We have one piece of information, but not a very useful one. We know that… Continue reading Reddit’s Warrant Canary Just Died