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Transparency in city spending
Consumers blindsided by secret settlements in hi-tech patent lawsuits
From Peter Scheer at the First Amendment Coalition of California:
Apple recently announced that it had reached a global settlement of its patent disputes with HTC, a producer of smartphones using Android, the Google-owned operating system for phones and tablets that compete head-on with Apple’s phones and tablets.
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AAUP Urges Resistance to Confidentiality Demands in Shared Governance
From Chronicle.com:
The American Association of University Professors plans to urge faculty members to resist being bound by pledges of confidentiality as a condition for involvement in shared governance at their colleges.
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Open Data Institute to open this week, highlighting big data innovation in the UK
From TheNextWeb.com:
The Open Data Institute (ODI) officially opens this week and it is “a collaboration between businesses, entrepreneurs, researchers, government and society to unlock enterprise and social value from the vast amount of open government data now being made available”.
That’s quite a mouthful – put plainly, there’s a truck load of open data around, so let’s have at it and see what we can do.
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OGP transparency officials chosen to hold ‘government’s feet to fire’
From The Guardian:
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has officially unveiled the senior advisors that will oversee transparency commitments made by member countries to coincide with the launch of the Open Data Institute (ODI).
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Transparency outsourced as U.S. hires vendors for FOIA request aid
From Bloomberg:
The next time you submit a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. government, it may end up in the hands of a company you’ve never heard of.
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FOIA documents show FBI was watching occupy protesters, some docs still secret on national security grounds
From American Civil Liberties Union:
Just shy of the one-year anniversary of the inaugural Occupy Wall Street protests, the ACLU of Northern California obtained initial documents from the FBI about surveillance of Occupy demonstrations in the region (see the FBI’s response here).
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NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for June 29, 2012
A few state FOIA and local and Federal open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:
NM court limits executive privilege in IPRA case
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NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for June 22, 2012
A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:
Judge’s ruling confirms Nevada public records are public
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