#transparency — Public Fediverse posts

Wired Middle East: The Open-Source Investigators Reconstructing the Middle East’s Wars. “With war and conflict raging across the region, researchers and journalists are increasingly turning to open-source intelligence (OSINT) to document atrocities and help hold perpetrators to account. From Gaza and southern Lebanon to Syria and Iran, and with some state actors operating without oversight, […]

The Uber case hinges on a specific gap: the company's systems flagged drivers for low ratings or suspected fraud, then deactivated accounts immediately with no person involved. Regulators found Uber also failed to clearly tell drivers their accounts were blocked by automation. https://www.implicator.ai/uber-fined-825-million-automated-driver-deactivations/ #AI #Transparency #PlatformWork

Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret.
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The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-affordable-housing-cost-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oregon #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Transparency

The EU Wanted A Deepfake Detector. It Got An AI Scarlet Letter.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/20/the-eu-wanted-a-deepfake-detector-it-got-an-ai-scarlet-letter/

University of Exeter: Scientists increasingly depend on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand . “As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, this lack of transparency will make scientific findings harder to interpret and verify. This issue extends beyond AI. Many remote sensing products rely on proprietary processing that researchers cannot fully access and verify, while […]

Enfield Council says the public must pay £182 to view its full HMO register.

Yet the Housing Act requires the register to be available for public inspection, while Enfield’s own budget labels the charge “Copy of HMO Register”.

I’ve sent an open letter asking the council to identify the legal basis for charging to inspect it.

Full article: https://thomaster.substack.com/p/enfield-council-wants-182-to-view

#Enfield #Housing #Transparency #FOI #LocalGovernment #HMO

FOIA Docs Show Brendan Carr Intimately Collaborated With White House, Right Wing Propaganda Orgs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/20/foia-docs-show-brendan-carr-intimately-collaborated-with-white-house-right-wing-propaganda-orgs/

Nice new interface ✅
https://the.kalvin.click
+ Top contributors on the heading
+ Metro quotes and call to action in the footer
+ Frequently updated support and needs ledger
Have a nice day! 😄☀️

#tech #technology #web #design #ui #ux #updates #blog #blogging #community #support #mutualaid #transparency #tracker #finance #minimalism #lifestyle #digital #coding

It could be just a rant by Cara with no factual basis, but for all the discussion about consent here, that would be really disappointing if true. @Mastodon @staff care to clarify if it’s true that you allow AI scrapers to access our “real-time posts and images for free”?

@Admin how about our server?

#AI #scraping #consent #data #privacy #transparency #generativeAI #Cara #CaraApp #Art #MastoArt #Mastodon

Nuusflits: Legal notices in South Africa now available in a Nuusflits digital archive. “Legal notices in South Africa published on Nuusflits can now also be accessed through a dedicated digital archive, giving attorneys, executors, fiduciary practitioners, businesses and members of the public an easier way to view previous legal notice editions in one place.”

Follow along with my live Support & Needs Ledger to see real-time balances, essential wishlist items, and the direct impact of community support.

https://the.kalvin.click/support-needs-ledger/

#mutualaid #transparency #support #community #tracker #finance #ledger #solidarity #tech #tools #expenses #budget #help #life #aid #open #updates #giving

Hey @europarl_en We asked for the names of officials covering up institutional racism, and you replied from a cowardly "DoNotReply" ghost box, trembling so hard you couldn't even drop a full name! 😂

The master dossier with names, titles, and unanswering institutions is permanently live and decentralized. Tick-tock, bureaucratic ghosts! 🕒🔥

🔗 https://teletype.in/@ml1426_le/LIjqOqgQ4At

#EU #Transparency #Accountability #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #Germany #InstitutionalRacism #MastodonLaw #EliteHypocrisy

I just made a "Support & Needs Ledger" to announce my needs and track my spending or impact on me. This has been done with the help of Coolify and AI, of course.

https://the.kalvin.click/support-needs-ledger/

#tech #technology #transparency #finance #tracking #ledger #expenses #community #support #mutualaid #budget #tools #software #ai #coding #lifestyle #independence #web #updates

I just updated my site.

"The Kalvin Click"
https://the.kalvin.click

Changes:
+ Music I am currently listening to
+ My fiat money balance tracker
+ My wishlist tracker
+ Donation impact records and photos

Have a nice day!

#blog #update #website #tech #music #transparency #finance #tracking #lifestyle #community #support #donations #giving #life #journey #creative #digital #web

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime

https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347055

#HackerNews #OaklandPolice #Overtime #Transparency #PayDisparity #PoliceFunding #Accountability

@osi
Just posted my answer to the OSI Governance Survey.

In short: the OSI Board is required to have clear and transparent decision processes, and election processes, and to fully engage with its diverse community if it expects to remain relevant in the #FLOSS ecosystem.

#OpenSource #OpenSourceGovernance #sustainability #CommunityManagement #Transparency

Krebs on Security: Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out. “It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising […]

Ah, Apple! The company that preaches #transparency while giving its own #apps a ✨ VIP pass✨ through the #privacy velvet rope. Meanwhile, competitors are left out in the cold like peasants trying to get into the castle. 🍏💁‍♂️ #FairPlayNotFound
https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2026/08_17_2026_Apple_ATTF.html #Apple #Competition #Fairness #HackerNews #ngated

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2026/08_17_2026_Apple_ATTF.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331222

#HackerNews #Apple #App #Tracking #Transparency #AppPrivacy #TechNews #FairCompetition

CU Today: CFPB Pulls Consumer Complaint Narratives From Public Database. “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Friday said it will stop publishing consumers’ written complaint narratives and related visualizations in its public Consumer Complaint Database, saying the unverified accounts can present a one-sided picture of financial companies and may not involve violations of law.”

ProPublica: Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone?. “According to OPM data, more than 600 government information specialists (staffers who administer FOIA and the Privacy Act) have resigned or been fired since the start of the second Trump administration. Within OPM itself, 12 information specialists left, seven of whom were laid off. (There was one new hire in that time […]

Claude Max subscribers are canceling over an invisible watermark Anthropic added Aug. 2 that marks edited work and cannot be disabled. The mark survives proofreading and translation. Teams using Claude to edit drafts now ship watermarked text they cannot audit or remove. https://www.implicator.ai/claude-subscribers-cancel-over-watermark-stripe-buys-openrouter-for-7b/ #AI #Ethics #Transparency

Anthropic applied an invisible watermark to Claude text on Aug. 2, marking EU compliance. At least four Claude Max subscribers ($100/mo) have canceled over concerns the mark persists even when Claude only proofreads their own work. Anthropic reports no uptick in departures, though independent verification is absent. https://www.implicator.ai/claude-users-cancel-subscriptions-watermark/ #AI #ContentModeration #Transparency

Opaque Automated Nightmares

* "Greens senator accuses Labor of backing gas industry and billionaires over ‘disabled people and our families’. Steele-John says:"

"Shame on you. You betray not only this community, but the national character. You will be condemned by history. The blood and the lives of those who will suffer and die will be on your hands, and will live in your consciences forever."

"And come the next election, we will consider what to do with our votes, and we will remember, who backed us up, who fought our corner in this moment, and who decided to turn away … We will ensure that every single life, every single cooked decision. Every single automated nightmare, created by this bill, is laid directly at your door." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/aug/17/australia-politics-live-labor-work-rights-visa-holders-anthony-albanese-angus-taylor-pauline-hanson-liberal-party-one-nation-ntwnfb

* Inside the aged care algorithm deciding support for older Australians

"The last time 96-year-old Audrey Staniland was assessed for in-home aged care funding was with a human clinician more than a decade ago...A "classification algorithm" would be deciding the outcome, with the clinician unable to change it."

"The algorithm was introduced by the government to ensure consistent funding because it said some assessors were over-funding elderly people, leading to a surplus of $4 billion in unspent funds."

"Private consultants designed the original algorithm, but the version used today was finalised and validated by public servants in the Department of Health and Ageing."

"...At Senate estimates, under questioning by the Coalition, Greens and independent senator David Pocock, the department admitted there had been no live trial of the final algorithm and it was unable to name any expert clinicians who validated it." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-17/inside-the-black-box-aged-care-algorithm-for-support-at-home/107033970
#AI #automation #care #extractivism #redistribution #governance #algorithm #accountability #HumanInTheLoop #HITL #transparency #HealthCare #BlackBox