#governmentsecrecy — Public Fediverse posts

"John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its time – that the internet could make more information available to more people than ever before.

John and architect Deborah Natsios, his wife, in 1996 founded Cryptome, an online library which collects and publishes data about freedom of expression, privacy, cryptography, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and government secrecy. Its slogan: “The greatest threat to democracy is official secrecy which favors a few over the many.” And its invitation: “We welcome documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide.”"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder

#Cryptome #CivilLiberties #OpenGovernment #Surveillance #Privacy #NationalSecurity #FreedomOfExpression #Cryptography #GovernmentSecrecy #Intelligence

@ned

A reminder to everyone that the UCP passed legislation that allows them to mandate caps on these negotiations by sending a letter to the school boards, but in the same law makes it illegal for anyone who knows about these letters to talk about them, even by simply acknowledging their existence.

The GoA is not protecting Alberta families and students here, but is the elephant at the table no one is allowed to talk about.

#UCPFail #NoAccountability #GovernmentSecrecy #ABPoli #ABLeg

Legal scholar Drew Yewchuk skewers the claim of Canadian rule of law and democracy by showing how routine non-compliance (i.e., lawlessness) by our governments subverts both. That's because there is no means of enforcing our laws on governments who break them.

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88372

#RuleOfLaw #Canada #cdnpoli #SpeciesAtRiskAct #AccessToInformation #GovernmentSecrecy

The real failure of the Eglinton Crosstown isn’t the delays

OPINION: The project is years behind schedule. But the government’s decision to just stop talking about it is an even bigger cause for concern

https://www.tvo.org/article/the-real-failure-of-the-eglinton-crosstown-isnt-the-delays

#toronto #Ontario #EglintonCrosstown #CrosstownTO #TOPoli #TTC #Metrolinx #FOIA #GovernmentSecrecy #AccessToInformation