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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 15, 2026
Cops Play Hide And Seek About Using Spy Tech To Avoid Scrutiny And Bad PR
Law enforcement agencies across the country are increasingly relying on spying technologies—automated license plate readers (ALPR), cell-site simulators, and facial recognition, to name a few--causing an outcry in many communities where people are rightly concerned about the threat to civil rights and civil liberties these tools present.Some authorities are responding to these concerns by trying...
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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 2, 2026
CDC Opens Up COVID Vaccine Procurement Without Explanation
Among the many promises that RFK Jr. offered in his confirmation hearings, promises that he has gone about breaking in spectacular fashion, one was a promise of "radical transparency". His approach, in his own words, was laid out directly to Congress. My approach to administration HHS will be transparency. If members of this committee or...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 20, 2026
The EU Wanted A Deepfake Detector. It Got An AI Scarlet Letter.
I spoke a little about this on last week's Ctrl-Alt-Speech, but now that Anthropic has come out with more details about how its text watermarking works, the debate has shifted into overdrive. Many people are upset about it, even though it appears that Google has already been doing something similar with the output from Gemini....
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The Marshall Project
The Marshall ProjectJul 15, 2026
Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark
ICE says ‘millions’ of immigrants have left or been deported in Trump’s crackdown. But where are the receipts?
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Google Open Source blog
Google Open Source blogJun 30, 2026
Community feedback: How can corporations improve support for open source maintainers?
We know that AI is actively transforming the sustainability and socio-technical dynamics of OSS communities. Google Open Source is committed to...
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We Can Just Do Things
We Can Just Do ThingsJun 22, 2026
W Social and the ancient art of neighbourliness
Good behaviour matters more than good code
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We Can Just Do Things
We Can Just Do ThingsJun 18, 2026
W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent.
Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.
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~ajhalili2006's blog and musings
~ajhalili2006's blog and musingsJan 6, 2026
Signing off from the Hack Club community
The end of an era, I guess. Even if this feels more lonelier while autistic online, don't worry about me either way.
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Numergent
NumergentJan 21, 2025
Entrepreneurship in fast forward
cryptomusings
Numergent
NumergentNov 15, 2024
Centralization Is A Fragile Thing
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Ben Werdmuller
Ben WerdmullerJan 21, 2010
Open data at data.gov.uk
The British equivalent to Obama’s data.gov opened today. Over at ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick points out the scale of the ambition involved: At launch, Data.gov.uk has nearly 3,000 data sets available for developers to build mashups with. The U.S. site, Data.gov, has less than 1,000 data sets today. […][Unlike the US equivalent, the site] includes 22 military data sets at launch, including one called Suicide and Open Verdict Deaths in the U.K. Regular Armed Forces. However, these are ra
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Ben Werdmuller
Ben WerdmullerDec 3, 2009
Public IT project hell: let’s make government work for us
Why does it cost $235 million to integrate a few IT systems? Johannes Ernst contrasts the Yahoo/Facebook deep integration announcement with the US government’s announcement that they will spend $235 million on integrating incompatible healthcare IT systems, and asks some pertinent questions: I assume we all agree that an environment in which leading-edge companies innovate on their own to the benefit of their customers is better than one in which the government has to spend large amounts of mo
Data controlPolitics
Ben Werdmuller
Ben WerdmullerApr 7, 2009
BarCamp Transparency
One of the outcomes of BarCamp Oxford has been the organisation of a new BarCamp about transparency and ethics - a mix of social media, open government and cyber-activism. It's in its early planning stages, but it'll take place sometime over the summer here in Oxford. If you're interested, I suggest you take a look at the BarCamp Transparency wiki and throw your name into the ring. I was asked if I'd help organise, and while I can't provide as much time as I'd like to due to prior commitments,
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Ben Werdmuller
Ben WerdmullerMar 9, 2009
The mechanics of "open"
Since we started Elgg, I've always kept a very open philosophy about how the software should work. From the human perspective, we wanted it to be as inclusive as possible, with an easy-to-use interface and innards that allowed you to do very technical things (like, in Elgg 0.x, republishing aggregated RSS) with very little knowhow. From the organizational perspective, we didn't want there to be a barrier to entry; we released it under the GNU Public License and allowed anyone to download and ins
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