Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry
#HackerNews #socialmedia #research #industry #ties #transparency #ethics
Ross Mounce
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So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."
https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview
Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)
Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.
#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science
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So much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."
https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview
Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)
Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.
#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science
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Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won't Say How Used
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/
#HackerNews #Police #Surveillance #PhoneTracking #Transparency #PrivacyTech
Can #FreeSoftware be used for commercial purposes?
@fsfe
Unfortunately, there are still massive potholes along the way...
Commercial(!) users should be REQUIRED to disclose their use of #FOSS and, ideally, also be required to donate to it.
Unfortunately, current developments in the GPL do not take this into account.
Because no matter what #Stallman says, commons MUST ALSO BE FINANCED! And to do that, we first need more #transparency about how it is used.
#GPL4
Chip Butty
and 3 others
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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data
Jennifer Ouellette
and 2 others
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Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
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The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-doj-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Ethics #Crypto #Law #Transparency #Stocks #Trump #USPolitics
Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
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The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-doj-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Ethics #Crypto #Law #Transparency #Stocks #Trump #USPolitics
Alex Akselrod
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Worth reading this security disclosure from Blockstream about Jade. It is a good example of why transparency matters in Bitcoin and open source security. No system is perfect, but honest disclosure, fixes and clear communication build real trust over time.
https://blog.blockstream.com/jade-security-disclosure/
#Bitcoin #Security #HardwareWallet #OpenSource #Transparency
Worth reading this security disclosure from Blockstream about Jade. It is a good example of why transparency matters in Bitcoin and open source security. No system is perfect, but honest disclosure, fixes and clear communication build real trust over time.
https://blog.blockstream.com/jade-security-disclosure/
#Bitcoin #Security #HardwareWallet #OpenSource #Transparency
Trustworthy #research information doesn’t emerge by chance, it must be designed into our infrastructures & workflows.
At #euroCRIS2025 Angeliki Tzouganatou presented the talk "Trust by Design", where she laid out how #OpenInfrastructures support responsible assessment through #transparency, #interoperability, & #community governance.
🔗Get more insights from the event https://tinyurl.com/45xw36sx
Aral Balkan
and 1 other
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Public servants are meant to be transparent. Private citizens are meant to be… private. Flip that, and you don’t have a democracy anymore — you have surveillance.
#Privacy #DigitalRights #AntiSurveillance #CivilLiberties #Accountability #Transparency #FediPrivacy