transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn
transparency The Catholic Church broke its promise to publish a list of "credibly accused" abuser priests, so Propublica did it for them Cory Doctorow
health For the first time, you can search the database of money that publicly funded researchers in Illinois received from pharma companies Cory Doctorow
transparency Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File Cory Doctorow
privacy Civil rights groups call for a stop to Amazon's doorbell surveillance partnerships with cops Cory Doctorow
elections Voting machine companies: the names of our parent companies are trade secrets Cory Doctorow
health Prosecutors and federal judges collaborate with corporations to seal evidence of public safety risks, sentencing hundreds of thousands of Americans to death Cory Doctorow
Business Axon makes false statements to town that bought its police bodycams, threatens to tase their credit-rating if they cancel the contract Cory Doctorow
Business Big Tech's addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by "terrorizing" employees Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Chuck Tingle's Muellerporn: "Redacted In The Butt By Redacted Under The Tromp Administration" Cory Doctorow
corruption The #ShellPapers: crowdsourcing analysis of all correspondence between Shell and the Dutch government Cory Doctorow
News List of thousands of criminal cops accidentally released under public records laws, now CA AG threatens 2 reporters with legal action for having a copy Xeni Jardin
transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
corruption Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers Cory Doctorow
transparency Chuck Schumer's general counsel, once a Goldman Sachs lobbyist, won't disclose the names of 95% of his former clients Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow
