Showing posts with label secrecy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secrecy. Show all posts
31 October 2014

Response to EU Ombudsman's Consultation on TTIP Transparency

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The EU Ombudsman is running a consultation on how to improve the transparency of the TTIP negotiations.  This shouldn't be hard, ...
24 July 2014

Japan Likely To Pass New Secrecy Law That Would Put Whistleblowers And Journalists In Jail

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One of the many worrying aspects of the Snowden saga is an attempt in the US to reframe whistleblowing as treason, and to make it harder...
23 November 2013

Would You Trust Any Organization That Doesn't Trust 4,000 Of Its Employees? What If It's The NSA?

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It's becoming increasingly clear that one of the reasons Edward Snowden was able to access so much secret information -- and walk ou...
27 October 2013

How To Solve Overclassification: Give Government Departments A Limited Annual 'Secrecy Budget'

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Recently we noted that " overclassification " of sensitive material actually leads to more secrets being revealed. The New Yo...
26 October 2013

Discontent With Secrecy And One-Sided Nature Of TPP Spreads Among Participating Nations

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Last week Mike wrote how frustration at the unremitting secrecy surrounding TPP, and the refusal to allow members of the public in whos...
20 July 2013

Not Learning From ACTA: IPR Protection And Enforcement Seen As 'Less Difficult Issue' For TAFTA/TTIP

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Despite increasing calls for the imminent TAFTA/TTIP trade negotiations to be conducted as openly as possible, it seems likely that, a...

EU Free Trade Agreements With India And Canada Grind To A Halt

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Techdirt has been covering the free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the EU for a while now -- that is, as well as any...

Why Public Interest Trumps Trade Secrecy

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Most companies have a natural tendency to keep details of their activities secret -- the fear being that competitors might be able to e...
14 April 2013

French Intelligence Agency Forces Wikipedia Volunteer to Delete Article; Re-Instated, It Becomes Most-Read Page On French Wikipedia

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Last week, we wrote about an organization that was  unhappy  that a Wikipedia article no longer existed. Now we have the opposite problem...
18 October 2011

Out ACTA-ing ACTA: All TPP Negotiating Documents To Be Kept Secret Until Four Years After Ratification

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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has now been signed by several nations – even if its actual status is by no means clear. ...
29 November 2010

Wikileaks: the Web Watches and Waits

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It's clearly still far too early to attempt to assess the impact of Wikileaks' latest mega-leak, this time of US secret cables, whic...
21 March 2010

To: EC's Directorate General for Trade

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Without much fanfare, the European Commission has arranged an "ACTA Stakeholders’ Consultation Meeting". Of course, the big prob...
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24 September 2009

Cracks in the ACTA Wall of Secrecy

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I've lamented many times the totally unjustified secrecy of the ACTA negotiations: these affect billions of people who have a right to k...
21 January 2009

MPs' Expenses Not Secret - Yet...

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Looks like a reprieve more than a pardon: Gordon Brown today retreated from plans to exempt MPs expenses from the Freedom of Information Ac...
03 July 2008

In Praise of Wikileaks

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Nice background piece on Wired.
29 February 2008

On Being Open

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Interesting thoughts from Cory Ondrejka on the virtues of telling people what you're doing when you start a new company, rather than tr...