At a candidate forum in Midway, sponsored by the Liberty County Branch of the NAACP, candidates discussed issues such as lack of transparency from City Hall, poor cell service, the need for new businesses, and the need for a professional grant writer to bring in money for the city.| The Current
The lack of clear reporting and public access to data keeps the industry largely hidden, leaving questions about humane treatment and traceability unanswered.| The Western ProducerLivestock Production, Trades & Disease | The Western Prod...
The power of Reciprocal Accountability| CONTRARY BRIN
Returning to the AI Wars | CONTRARY BRIN
The growing role of fast food in modern diets underscores the need to assess allergen risks and nutritional transparency in the quick-service sector. France’s leading consumer organisation, UFC-Que Choisir, conducted a 2025 study of McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, and Quick, focusing on allergen disclosure, ingredient transparency and Nutri-Score use. This article critically reviews the study’s […] The post Fast food under scrutiny: UFC-Que Choisir investigation appeared first on FoodTi...| FoodTimes
The FOI Foundation of Texas state conference Sept. 26 featured a lineup of impactful speakers and discussions addressing a range of open government and free speech topics. Thanks to all the conference participants, planners and attendees. Video recordings of each panel session and the luncheon speeches are now available on our website at https://foift.org/about/video/| Freedom of Information Foundation Texas
Austin American-Statesman, KVUE and Odessa American win 2025 Spirit of FOI Awards| Freedom of Information Foundation Texas
Federal healthcare programs are often well-intended but end up costing more than expected and become subject to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. One of the best (or worst) examples of such a result is the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The lack of clear intent […]| Citizens Against Government Waste
This statement was released on April 15, 2025. BOSTON – Congratulations to Mike Kennealy on his decision to run for Governor of Massachusetts. Mike has served as a thoughtful and deeply engaged member of Pioneer Institute’s board since 2023. We are grateful for his contributions and his commitment to the Commonwealth. Pioneer is an independent, non-partisan think tank with offices in Boston and Washington, D.C. Our work is grounded in four policy areas essential to human potential: K–1...| Pioneer Institute
By Daniel Cloake, 23rd September 2025 Editorial note: Judgment in this case has now been published: Re Carl Gardner, Deceased (Duration of Transparency Order). This blog is reprinted, with permissi…| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
An Essay on the Individualisation of Communications| The Risk-Monger
The EU has had a series of NGO funding scandals. They're looking in the wrong places to answer the wrong questions.| The Risk-Monger
The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new transparency policy for the reporting of foodborne illness outbreak investigations. As part of the initiative the public, industry stakeholders and other entities will have access to two new resources once an outbreak investigation has ended: “The EIS abstracts will allow stakeholders... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
One of the most fundamental duties of a senator is to scrutinise the government — not just its words, but its actions. That means asking tough questions about how public money is spent, and demanding transparency when answers are withheld. Let’s be clear: there is no such thing as “government money.” Every dollar the government […]| Malcolm Roberts
“This report concludes that DOGE is jeopardizing Americans’ most sensitive data, while its employees operate under a layer of secrecy that shields them from meaningful oversight and accountability,” the report’s authors wrote. The post New York Times: Democratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans’ Data appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Nearly 100 doctors who have practiced at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued a mass letter on Wednesday raising “urgent concerns” about Trump administration policies that they said will “negatively affect the lives of all veterans”. The letter sent to congressional leaders, Doug Collins, the VA secretary, and the agency’s inspector general marks the first time VA physicians have spoken collectively about staffing cuts and aggressive privatization moves at the nation’...| Government Accountability Project
A federal whistleblower alleged a Trump administration official made "inaccurate statements" to a federal court, as part of the attempted deportation of around 600 Guatemalan and Honduran kids from the U.S. —including 69 from Arizona—over Labor Day weekend. The post Tucson Sentinel: Whistleblower: ‘Inaccurate statements’ to court put kids at risk as officials prepped Labor Day deportations appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
In a striking opinion, Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had misleadingly presented its actions as a “reunification” effort, bringing children back to their parents in Guatemala who it said had requested their return. The post New York Times: Judge Blocks Administration From Immediately Removing Guatemalan Children appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
There’s some good news related to the Trump administration’s concerted attack on the Social Security Administration: Thus far, it doesn’t appear to have significantly affected the delivery of benefits. Checks are still going out and payments into beneficiaries’ bank accounts are still arriving on time. Beyond that, however, the system is going to hell.| Government Accountability Project
The TrustFabric team at Google are thrilled to announce that Tessera, the C2SP tlog-tiles compliant transparency log library, is now generally available! For over a decade our team has been building and running transparency logs. What began with purp...| Transparency.dev Community Blog
Introducing Trillian Tessera: Next Generation Tile-based Transparency Logs| Transparency.dev Community Blog
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security| joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
Healthcare demand for locum tenens and contingent staffing has never been higher. The pandemic highlighted how critical staffing agencies are for delivering qualified providers quickly, but also exposed weaknesses in service quality, compliance, and transparency. As healthcare organizations rely on external staffing partners, vendor-neutral VMS/MSP platforms must streamline talent access while holding agencies accountable to higher service standards.| HWL Blog
Unfortunately the string of phishing attacks using domain-confusion| The Python Package Index Blog
Incident report of a recent attack campaign targeting GitHub Actions workflows to exfiltrate PyPI tokens, our response, and steps to protect your projects.| blog.pypi.org
FOI Column: Open government impacts our lives in big ways| Freedom of Information Foundation Texas
More than two dozen children from Guatemala whom the Trump administration sought to deport earlier this month had been flagged as vulnerable to child abuse and human trafficking in a Health and Human Services Department database that tracks unaccompanied children, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed to Congress on Tuesday. The post New York Times: Whistle-Blower Account Contradicts Government’s Claims on Guatemalan Children appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.| Government Accountability Project
Jonny Coates ha appena pubblicato un articolo molto interessante sul blog della LSE (Can we measure trust in scientific publications?) Si parte dalla messa in discussione degli indicatori tradizionali (IF, Citescore, numero di citazioni ecc.) anche solo come proxy della affidabilità di una pubblicazione scientifica. In un’epoca in cui paper mills e review mills inondano …| Open Science @Unimi
Which MP is the highest earner? Who receives the highest donations? Who takes the most foreign trips? We’ve just launched an interactive map that lets you explore all this and more. Apologies – this is currently down… the map needs to be updated. We hope to get to this soon. There’s an important political debate […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
Offshore secrecy is a problem. Tax avoidance, tax evasion, sanctions evasion, drug cartels, corruption, questionable government contracts – all have been enabled by offshore companies whose ownership and accounts are hidden from public view. We believe everyone would benefit if all companies, everywhere in the world, had to publish basic information: their shareholders, directors, beneficial […]| Tax Policy Associates Ltd
And what that means for fundraisers. The post Why Gen Z trusts nonprofits more than Congress appeared first on the Giving Review.| the Giving Review
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 3, 2025 AUSTIN – Bill Aleshire, an attorney devoted to protecting the public’s access to government information, will receive the prestigious James Madison Award for his decades-long commitment to upholding Texas’ open meetings and open records laws. Aleshire, who initially made his mark in government transparency as a public official and [...]| Freedom of Information Foundation Texas
In defiance of a court order and to prevent Miranda being temporarily moved out of the family home for assessment purposes, Miranda’s mother took her to Jamaica in early February 2023.| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
Last month, the website that hosted every edition of the National Climate Assessment went dark, marking another egregious instance of disappeared climate data and resources under the current Trump administration. Within days of this erasure, Texas’s Kerr County saw unprecedented flooding, leaving many dead and injured. The timing of the events–alongside the administration’s recent cuts […]| UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog
Image Source: The current declassification system is a “crisis that undermines both our national security and government transparency,” according to Senator Gary Peters (D-MI). On July 9, Peters, w…| UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog
By Celia Kitzinger, 29th August 2025 Earlier this month, Sandra and Joe Preston published an account of their experience in the Court of Protection and queried whether the case about their relative’s “deprivation of liberty” was a good use of judicial time, tax-payers’ money and in the public interest. You can read their blog postContinue reading "Making it possible for families to tell their Court of Protection stories: How we got the reporting restrictions changed (while P is stil...| Promoting Open Justice in the Court of Protection
DOGE's actions have effectively created "a live copy of the entire country’s Social Security information," lawyers for chief data officer Charles Borges alleged in the Aug. 26 complaint, which contends the information is on a server that lacks security oversight and a way to track who has accessed the data.| Government Accountability Project
Whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration since January, said the potential sensitive information that risks being released includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.| Government Accountability Project
The top data official from the Social Security Administration is warning that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk of exposure to malicious actors.| Government Accountability Project
A whistleblower accused officials tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of putting the personal details of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) most sensitive database into a “vulnerable” cloud server.| Government Accountability Project
I will be a discussant on the recent WTO arbitral decision in DS/611 before a virtual meeting Friends of the Multilateralism Group (FMG). The FMG brings together WTO Ambassadors&n…| China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China
Your generosity equips one brave pioneer to heal the Biblical Heartland. The post Bringing Life Back to the Heart of Israel appeared first on Israel365 Charity.| Israel365 Charity
This is what your support means: stability, dignity, and hope for an injured IDF soldier, even in the most difficult times. The post Standing with an injured IDF Hero appeared first on Israel365 Charity.| Israel365 Charity
Your support is bringing joy, dignity, and healing to children across Israel as they face some of life’s hardest battles.| Israel365 Charity
To counter the propaganda of public officials and political leaders, Puerto Rican attorney Luis José Torres Asencio used a recent keynote address to urge both the press and the general public to exercise their right to access information more frequently and with greater urgency.| Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
The open source community has been abuzz for the past two years about European governance in open source software. From casual meetups to professional conferences, the implication of government funding and regulation of the free-use software sector has resulted in heavily debated discourse around the legal, financial, societal, and functional changes possible with the introduction […]| OSTIF.org
Most philosophers, and in my experience, many non-philosophers as well, have the intuition that there is something distinctive about the knowledge we have of our own mental states. If you were to tell me that you think that there is beer in the fridge, I might ask you why you think that, but it would…| Blog of the APA
Donald Tusk’s government vowed that “every złoty will be checked,” blaming the former Law and Justice administration for forcing a rushed rollout.| POLITICO
In this article, we explore the growing trend of human-AI relationships, what AI actually is, the risks of anthropomorphizing it, and how we can navigate this treacherous road humanity is speeding down… safely. Six weeks after starting a relationship with a chatbot named Eliza, a Belgian man comm| Open Ethics Initiative
Because of your support, dozens of Israel’s lone soldiers—young heroes who leave everything behind to serve in the IDF—didn’t come back from the battlefield to cold silence. They came home to Shabbat.| Israel365 Charity
Read the follow-up post: Phishing Attack Follow-Up| The Python Package Index Blog
A follow-up to the inbox.ru email domain prohibition.| blog.pypi.org
In the Biblical Heartland, lives are slowly being rebuilt beause of you. The post Behind Every Door in Israel: The Quiet Impact of Your Support appeared first on Israel365 Charity.| Israel365 Charity
Thanks to your donations, we reached six Holocaust survivors whose living conditions were unsafe, undignified, and in desperate need of attention.| Israel365 Charity
How we decide what goes into open source vs enterprise at Authentik, and why working in the open benefits everyone.| authentik Blog
Being open source is a core advantage to a security-focused product.| authentik Blog
This image has been generated by a batch conversion – the original image is very big and has a transparent background. In IrfanView, you can modify the output color of the finished image. To do that, you need to go into the main application, not the advanced settings in the batch concersion window. Click on… Der Beitrag IrfanView: how to set the background color on batch conversion erschien zuerst auf pi3g.com.| pi3g.com
Contemporary leaders motivate and engage their employees through behaviors like collaboration and inclusivity. Learn the 6 ways to modernize the way you lead.| Gavel International
Publisher-oriented third-party vendors have one main task: to make their product work, in most cases by generating revenue for the publisher. If they can’t make that happen, they’ll tend to do the next best thing—i.e., try to make their product seem like it’s working.| EX.CO Blog
Norwegian ambassador lists points where members agree and where their views diverge widely on what they believe needs to be reformed| Trade β Blog
Three weeks ago, on June 10, a British Reaper drone began tracking a motorcycle in north-western Syria near the border with Turkey as it began to be ridden by a someone described by British intelli…| Drone Wars UK
The families of IDF heros– the wives, husbands, and children who pick up the pieces at home – need our help just as urgently, yet they're too easily forgotten. The post The Unseen Battlefield: Your Helping Israeli Families Cope with War’s Aftermath appeared first on Israel365 Charity.| Israel365 Charity
Since October 7th, your unwavering support and generous contributions have been nothing short of a lifeline for the brave lone soldiers serving on the frontlines. The post Bringing Shabbat Joy to Lone Soldiers appeared first on Israel365 Charity.| Israel365 Charity
Your kindness continues to shine brightly during these dark times. As air raid sirens sound across Israel since October 7th, your generosity provides a different kind of security for Holocaust survivors – the safety of a well-maintained home and the comfort of knowing they haven't been forgotten. The post Rebuilding Lives, Restoring Hope: Your Donations at Work for Holocaust Survivors appeared first on Israel365 Charity.| Israel365 Charity
In times of national crisis, it's the small acts of kindness that often make the most profound difference. The post Bringing Light to Healing: Rabbi Klughaupt’s Mission at Beit Levenstein appeared first on Israel365 Charity.| Israel365 Charity
The post A NEW CHAPTER IN ACCOUNTABILITY: TRANSPARENCY AND ANONYMISATION IN THE CROATIAN COURTS appeared first on АНАЛИ.| ANALI
Without care, distributed autonomy and transparency will misfire. Power will be used for selfish gains instead of collective gains.| Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology
Yale’s New Committee on Trust in Higher Education Has Zero Republicans May 1, 2025 On April 11, 2024, Yale University announced the formation of a new […]| Fight For Yale's Future
The WTO recently released its decision in DS 611, the IP enforcement case involving China's SEP practices and transparency of China's judicial decision making. The case makes some progress on China's important transparency obligations.| China IPR – Intellectual Property Developments in China
We responded to an incident related to privileges persisting via Organization Teams after Members are removed from Organizations.| blog.pypi.org
While taking a negotiation course a couple of weeks ago I got to think about how we achieved to create a trust-based company. Here are my thoughts| 10Pines | Blog
Petition: Call for Greater Intellectual Diversity at Yale March 13, 2025 Fight for Yale’s Future has launched a new petition calling for Yale to increase intellectual […]| fightforyale.com
As the global race for AI dominance cranks up, what are the potential risks when superpowers like the U.S. prioritize winning over AI transparency and safety? And while ongoing advances in artificial intelligence do benefit society, will unregulated innovation serve our good or speed up humanity’s downfall? In this article, we examine the potential impact […]| Open Ethics Initiative
A country’s defense spending represents the most direct way of measuring its potential military capability.| ChinaPower Project
Discover the functional benefits of organic faba beans, a sustainable plant-based protein featured in our Sprouted Protein Oatmeal & Granola.| One Degree Organics
PyPI is formalizing our policies to help us move forward with new services.| blog.pypi.org
There is growing awareness that Special Issues have become a menace in the world of academic publishing, because they provide a convenient way for large volumes of low quality work to be published in journals that profit from a healthy article processing charge. There has been a consequent backlash against Special Issues, with various attempts to rein them in. Here I'll describe the backstory and show how such attempts are being subverted. | BishopBlog
The research analyst talks to Michael E. Hartmann about fiscal sponsorship—including how it works, its history and purpose, its apparent growth, and the benefits it provides, one of which may be considered a drawback.| the Giving Review
The words we use to define data In the 2021 Defend Digital Me report, The Words We Use in Data Policy: Putting People Back in the Picture, we examined why public conversations about personal data o…| Jen Persson's blog
soft skills| Center for Entrepreneurship
A positive company culture is one of the best ways to attract and retain high-performing employees. Learn the 10 most desirable company culture traits.| Gavel International
look, whatever the {official economic} charts say is a 100% bold faced lie. have you seen the price of a little ceasars pizza? it’s jumped nearly 50% in the last 4 years. my salary has not gone up 50% relative to my experiece in the last 4 years. most recently i got a salary cut. … Continue reading To Save Democracy, We Need to Rebuild Trust In Our Institutions→| Outlook Zen
As part of our commitment to transparency and accountability, CRS is pleased to share details of our budget and finances. We are grateful for our donors’ support, which helps us to continue our work and implement our Strategic Plan. Should you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us, or use our […] The post 2024 Financial Report appeared first on Center for Reducing Suffering.| Center for Reducing Suffering
After stealing the show at CES 2024 in January, LG's totally transparent TV is finally available to buy. The 77-inch Signature OLED T can be yours for an eye-watering US$60,000.| New Atlas
The EU AI Act makes transparency central to compliance, requiring companies to disclose key AI system information. Beyond regulation, transparency builds trust, drives innovation, and creates a competitive advantage. This text highlights why it matters, what to disclose, and how to start adopting tr| Open Ethics Initiative
Back in mid-2014, LG unveiled its first experimental transparent OLED display panel. That measured just 18 diagonal inches, but now the company has revealed a 77-inch transparent OLED television that's almost completely wireless.| New Atlas
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: The Story Behind Our Canadian Grown Oats appeared first on One Degree Organics.| One Degree Organics
As part of our commitment to transparency and accountability, CRS is pleased to share details of our budget and finances. We are grateful for our donors’ support, which helps us to continue our work and implement our Strategic Plan. Should you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us, or use our […] The post 2023 Financial Report appeared first on Center for Reducing Suffering.| Center for Reducing Suffering
On 2024-11-21, PyPI was notified about a malware attack with few details.| The Python Package Index Blog
A look back at the past year as the first Safety & Security Engineer for the Python Package Index.| blog.pypi.org
Health insurers use of prior authorization appears to be on the rise. A recent report by CHIR researchers examines four states' prior authorization policies for the commercial market to identify potential reform strategies to ease provider burden and improve patient access without also increasing in| CHIRblog
Elected student representatives, who campaign on platforms built on openness and accountability, must understand that transparency is a two-way street.The few students who do run for student government, whether that be the AMS, SGPS, or Faculty Societies, often promise to be the voice of the student body, pledging to listen, act on feedback, and remain accessible.Yet, this pledge is hollow when they respond to criticism with defensiveness rather than engagement.| The Queen's Journal
By Michelle Taylor| Open Research at Bristol
Surprise! The former Secretary of State and his co-writer could financially gain from this pro-Ukraine proposal| Responsible Statecraft
We responded to an incident related to a leaked GitHub Personal Access Token for a PyPI administrator.| blog.pypi.org
When asked about privacy in the digital space, the usual answer seems to be a scoff. Sometimes it is even followed by a taunting sneer with a tint of “there is nothing we can do about it though” look. But why is that? A View on Privacy – The Scoff Here are the common […]| Open Ethics Initiative
Do you want your apt-get update to only ever use files whose hash checksum have been recorded in the globally immutable tamper-resistance ledger rekor provided by the Sigstore project? Well I thought you’d never ask, but now you can, thanks Continue reading Sigstore protects Apt archives: apt-verify & apt-sigstore→| Simon Josefsson's blog
Domain names used in malware attack, and how PyPI handled it.| blog.pypi.org
An attack on PyPI user accounts starting on March 31st, 2024.| blog.pypi.org
