Tag: transparency

30 DEC

‘Burdensome’ transparency? US agency wants to ignore FOIA requests, in Americans’ best interests

The US Department of the Interior seeks to reserve the right to ignore any FOIA requests from the public that it deems too “burdensome” to fulfil. The move amounts to censorship and is a crackdown on transparency, critics argue. Claiming that it is overwhelmed by the volume of requests from journalist and the general public, […]

19 DEC

Transparency threatens Isle of Man insurers’ business model

Manx for the memories THE SEASIDE promenade in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, a self-governing British Crown dependency, boasts grand Victorian buildings and a horse-drawn tram. Once they helped it to compete with the likes of Llandudno and Blackpool for the tourist masses of England’s north-west. When cheap air travel meant these holiday towns […]

04 SEP

FCC chairman pushes for internet content transparency laws

The FCC isn’t involved in the latest round of tech companies’ congressional testimony, but that isn’t stopping Chairman Ajit Pai from chiming in. The regulator has written a blog post effectively calling for laws requiring internet companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter to disclose how they decide on bans, demonetization and other policy decisions. People […]

30 JUN

How Facebook and Twitter’s new ad transparency tools fall short

ANALYSIS: Users can now see more information than ever before about how advertisers are using some of the largest social media platforms, thanks to ad transparency tools released earlier this week by Facebook and Twitter. But just because users have more information doesn’t mean it’s easy for them to parse. As a refresher, the release […]

30 JUN

Google stops taking political ads in Maryland because it’s not sure that it can comply with a new transparency law (GOOG, GOOGL)

  PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images Maryland’s General Assembly now requires that those buying political advertising identify themselves and how much they spent.  Google executives are unsure that they can comply with the law, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.  This is just the latest fallout for some of the big online advertisers following […]

04 MAY

Transparency is being forced on Britain’s overseas territories

Blue-skies regulation AS BRITAIN’S prime minister between 2010 and 2016, David Cameron championed financial transparency, targeting anonymous shell companies as the getaway cars of tax-evaders and money-launderers. On his watch Britain became the first G20 country to commit to a publicly accessible register of company owners. Mr Cameron tried to make British territories with big […]

06 APR

OPCW inspection in Russia amid Moscow’s calls for transparency in Skripal case

As Moscow urges full transparency in the case of Sergei Skripal’s poisoning, experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have paid a visit to Russia. Inspectors arrived to monitor compliance with the organization’s rules last week. The checks were reported by the Russian Defense Ministry’s newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), on […]