Showing posts with label transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transparency. 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

TAFTA/TTIP: What Price Transparency?

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One of the key problems with TAFTA/TTIP is the same one that plagued ACTA and has recently been highlighted with TPP : the complete lac...

Australian Government Announces Rare Public Consultation On TPP -- Then Bans All Journalists From Attending

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As Techdirt has noted many times, the TPP negotiations -- like ACTA before them and now TAFTA/TTIP -- are distinguished by an almost co...

TTIP Update IV

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One of the key issues during the ACTA negotiations was transparency - or rather the lack of it. Despite a few...

European Court Of Justice Hands Down Big Win For Transparency in Europe

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After a five-year battle by Access Info Europe , Europe's highest court has made an important ruling that will help boost transparency...
24 November 2013

Peruvian Congress Finalizes And Approves New Computer Crime Law In Secret Session, With No Public Discussion

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Like many countries, Peru has been working on a law to deal with various kinds of crimes that involve computers and the Internet in some...
23 November 2013

Desperate To Sew Up TPP Negotiations At Any Cost, Politicians Agree All Future Meetings Will Be Completely Secret

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We've been reporting for several years about the extraordinary levels of secrecy surrounding the TPP negotiations, where little info...
27 October 2013

When Transparency Is A Matter Of Life And Death

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Against a background of the leaks about NSA spying, transparency -- or lack of it -- is a hot topic at the moment. But there are situat...
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...

What Edward Snowden Has Given Us

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When Edward Snowden first revealed himself as the source of the NSA leaks, the Guardian released a short video interview with him in whic...
19 September 2013

Digital Economy Act Lurches On; Public Still Shut Out

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Remember the Digital Economy Act, surely one of the most disgraceful episodes in recent British political history? It was "passed...
18 September 2013

EU Commission Sued For Refusing To Reveal Trade Agreement Documents They Shared With Lobbyists

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A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the lack of transparency when international agreements and treaties are being drawn up. That'...
20 July 2013

US Demands Transparency Everywhere -- But Only From Everyone Else

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Techdirt has written about the Special 301 report many times, but that's not the only US government publication putting other countr...
31 March 2013

Giant Pharma Company Claims Releasing Data On Drug Safety Is Illegal As It's Confidential And 'Commercially Sensitive'

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One of the initiatives gaining momentum around the world is open data -- the idea that, for example, non-personal data affecting the pub...
11 November 2012

Bulgarian Banks Try To Silence Web Site That Called Them 'Bad Apples'

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Whatever your views on the value of Wikileaks, one of its useful side-effects has been the appearance of other sites that have tried to ...
13 October 2012

Last Chance: Consultation on Net Neutrality in EU

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Back in July, I wrote about a consultation on net neutrality from the EU, entitled On-line public consultation on "specific aspect...

German Gov't Inadvertently Reveals Police Monitor Gmail, Skype, Facebook & Use Snooping Malware

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Transparency is worth having for itself, since governments often tend to behave a little better when they know that someone is watching. ...

Fighting Lack of Transparency And Engagement With Parliamentary Openness

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A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the persistent lack of transparency during the drafting of new laws or the negotiation of new trea...

Declaration on Parliamentary Openness

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An increasing number of Open Enterprise posts are about moves to open up government in myriad ways. That's not really surprising, si...
11 April 2012

Unhappy With Even Minimal Scrutiny, US Removes Last Pretense Of TPP Transparency

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One of the central problems of ACTA has been its lack of transparency . TPP has also been negotiated behind closed doors, but unlike ACTA...