Calls for transparency after charges stayed in Chinatown senior assault
There are calls for transparency after charges against a man accused of a violent attack on a senior in Vancouver’s Chinatown were stayed with little public explanation.
#assault #transparency #crime #Chinatown #Vancouver #Justice
https://globalnews.ca/news/11117086/charges-stayed-chinatown-senior-assault/
Calls for transparency after charges stayed in Chinatown senior assault
There are calls for transparency after charges against a man accused of a violent attack on a senior in Vancouver’s Chinatown were stayed with little public explanation.
#assault #transparency #crime #Chinatown #Vancouver #Justice
https://globalnews.ca/news/11117086/charges-stayed-chinatown-senior-assault/
"Teams that fulfilled requests for government documents lost their jobs on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration's 10,000-person staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. Their work, mandated by Congress since the 1960s under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA, gives the public a view of the inner workings of federal health agencies."
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/03/g-s1-57888/hhs-fda-rfk-foia-public-records
Generating bonds of trust in these #fediverse ecosystems, and building a distribution of information with maximum #transparency, avoiding exposure to the redistribution of information by #BigTech, is the only remedy against #AIgen 
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Shoot the Messenger, Sunday Edition: Reporting on a leak is not unethical, Hamilton County
See the Chattanooga Times Free Press's full OpEd at: https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/mar/30/opinion-reporting-on-a-leak-is-not-unethical/
Here's another notification where it sounds like the victim paid the extortion demand but doesn't come right out and say that. Instead, their notification letter says that the data had temporarily been posted online but "The data is no longer posted on the dark web and, at this time, Kronick has no reason to believe this data was retained by the unknown third party or that any additional data was taken."
They don't name the attackers, but this was an incident involving #Rhysida that Rhysida had claimed on August 22, 2024.
Given how often we are told that these ransomware groups do retain data even after pinky-swearing and providing videos of it supposedly being destroyed forever, should entities like the law firm above say they have no reason to believe that their data was retained?
The notification letter by Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard can be found at https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/KMTG_Individual%20Notice%20Letter%20Sample%203.28.2025_0.pdf
Oracle Health is becoming the poster child for how NOT to respond to a breach:
Yes, this happened.
No Scandinavian country could possibly rival with this grade of transparency. Kudos, USA!
#Freedom doesn’t come from one vendor. It comes from open #collaboration, choice & #transparency.
#opensource offers just this. All of it. #Linux @fsfe @eu_os https://news.opensuse.org/2025/03/26/freedom-is-not-one-vender/
East Coast Music Association responds to calls for boycott with a plan for change
The East Coast Music Association says it now has an action plan, just two weeks after its awards show frontrunner, Jeremy Dutcher, dropped all eight of his nominations amid growing calls for transparency from the non-profit.
#music #award #controversy #transparency #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/east-coast-music-association-action-plan-1.7493014?cmp=rss
East Coast Music Association responds to calls for boycott with a plan for change
The East Coast Music Association says it now has an action plan, just two weeks after its awards show frontrunner, Jeremy Dutcher, dropped all eight of his nominations amid growing calls for transparency from the non-profit.
#music #award #controversy #transparency #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/east-coast-music-association-action-plan-1.7493014?cmp=rss
East Coast Music Association responds to calls for boycott with a plan for change
The East Coast Music Association says it now has an action plan, just two weeks after its awards show frontrunner, Jeremy Dutcher, dropped all eight of his nominations amid growing calls for transparency from the non-profit.
#music #award #controversy #transparency #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/east-coast-music-association-action-plan-1.7493014?cmp=rss
East Coast Music Association responds to calls for boycott with a plan for change
The East Coast Music Association says it now has an action plan, just two weeks after its awards show frontrunner, Jeremy Dutcher, dropped all eight of his nominations amid growing calls for transparency from the non-profit.
#music #award #controversy #transparency #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/east-coast-music-association-action-plan-1.7493014?cmp=rss
The US District Court of Appeals for DC just issued an order “Upon consideration of the petition for writ of mandamus & the emergency
motion for a stay” in NM v #ElonMusk
It “ORDERED that respondents file responses to both the emergency motion &
the mandamus petition by 5PM on Mon, March 24, 2025. Any replies are due
by 5PM on Tues, March 25, 2025.”
The same judges hearing #Trump’s #AliensEnemiesAct appeal are hearing Musk’s appeal: Henderson, Millett, & Walker
The #Trump admin is appealing a judge’s order requiring #ElonMusk & #DOGE to comply w/evidence demands from Democratic state ofcls who claim the #billionaire is exercising #unconstitutional #power across the US govt.
The #DOJ is arguing the lower court judge’s “unusual & highly invasive” order “raises grievous separation-of-powers concerns” by requiring a presidential adviser & the WH to turn over info about their activities….
#law #USpol #transparency #TrumpPurge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/trump-administration-fights-order-to-turn-over-doge-information
### Анонс
**"Как расследователи изменили журналистику и политический дискурс в Истории Западной Цивилизации, технического прогресса и свободы слова"**
В новом цикле статей мы исследуем, как расследовательская журналистика с момента своего возникновения до сегодняшнего дня не только раскрывала скрытые факты, но и становилась важным элементом политического дискурса. Мы обсудим, как современные технологии, от искусственного интеллекта до блокчейна, изменяют методы работы расследователей и как их работы формируют общественное мнение и политические процессы по всему миру.
### Библиография и источники для изучения
**Официальные источники и исследования**:
- "Mastering Bitcoin" – Andreas Antonopoulos
- "Programming Bitcoin" – Jimmy Song
- Bitcoin Developer Guide
- Ethereum Developer Portal
**Книги о расследовательской журналистике и политическом дискурсе**:
- "The Journalist and the Murderer" – Janet Malcolm
- "All the President's Men" – Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
- "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" – Lawrence Wright
- "The Death of Truth" – Michiko Kakutani
**Библиотеки и инструменты для расследований**:
- **bip_utils (Python)** – [GitHub](https://github.com/ebellocchia/bip_utils)
- **ethers.js (JavaScript)** – [Документация](https://docs.ethers.io/v5/)
### Хэштеги
#РасследовательскаяЖурналистика #ПолитическийДискурс #СвободаСлова #ИсторияЖурналистики #Цензура #Технологии #AIиЖурналистика #Web3 #Crypto #Blockchain #DigitalJournalism #InvestigativeJournalism #TechProgress #Transparency #FakeNews #Privacy #MediaEthics #OpenData #Bitcoin #Ethereum #HDWallets #CryptoDonations #JournalismInnovation
Okay, so the FiveThirtyEight site for polling results is now redirecting to the ABC News politics page. This change happened recently because I checked it yesterday (though it was stuck on March 4 results).
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/
Wikipedia has already been updated with the information:
"On March 5, 2025, the website was shut down by ABC News and the team behind it were fired. This was the first day that the site's data showed the popularity of US President Donald Trump in his second term turn negative."
As Idaho Pushes to Reform Its Coroner System, Counties Seek to Make It Less Transparent
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A bill moving forward with bipartisan support is described as a first step to addressing problems highlighted in a state report and by ProPublica. Meanwhile, counties seek to end access to coroners’ records that were key to ProPublica’s findings.
Here's my post on the court injunction my site got hit with:
HCRG Care's lawyers claimed an injunction issued in a "private" hearing required us to remove two posts. We didn't comply.
HCRG Care was represented by the Pinsent Masons law firm in the UK in this matter. The injunction was issued by the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, Media and Communications List by the Honorable Mr. Justice Soole.
Pinsent Mason's attempt to get my web host to remove my posts also failed.
As always, I feel blessed to have the legal support of Covington and Burling's Kurt Wimmer Pro Media Freedom Initiative, which has represented my site pro bono for the last 16 years.
Read about the letter, the injunction, and why the High Court's over-reaching injunction endangers UK journalists and doesn't serve the public well.
Oh, and I'm not the only one ignoring the injunction. Medusa also got served with the injunction via tox chat, they tell me. And like other injunctions they have received, they are ignoring it. So what has HCRG really accomplished?
#databreach #ransomware #Medusa #transparency #censorship #pressfreedom #injunction #FirstAmendment
@zackwhittaker @campuscodi @lawrenceabrams @iainthomson
@amvinfe @lawfare @freedomofpress
