So these apps have good archiving mechanisms checked out by archivists/transparency pros?

How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

How Do Whistleblowers Affect You? The topic of whistleblowers and whistleblower rights may seem like a niche or technical concept, but it actually greatly impacts you. If you don’t know how whistleblowers protect you every day, here are some questions to think about.

With the current news cycle, it's difficult to give your attention to every issue.

However, whistleblowers are always at the center, attempting to hold the powerful accountable to the the law.

Read how whistleblowers impact every aspect of your life. ⬇️

Loosin’ your religion?

Govt reviews Official Information Act costs as requests spike Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith investigates Official Information Act costs as requests rise 394 percent over a decade, sparking concerns over reduced transparency.

NZ government is moving to restrict #FOI too:

newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/30/g...

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Chris Finlayson: Punish ministers for Official Information Act breaches

Former Attorney-General Chris Finlayson calls for personal sanctions against ministers and CEOs who block OIA requests, citing "political interference".

Oklahoma is set to become the 21st state to pass a consumer privacy law. Unfortunately, the law is in the same mold as other state consumer privacy laws, a framework written by industry lobbyists that barely moves the needles on protecting privacy.

Have written more about what FOI cost limits are, and the effects of lowering them www.mysociety.org/2026/03/19/r...

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Happy International Alien Abduction Day!

NEW: A federal judge said in an opinion issued today that the Trump administration violated the tax law “approximately 42,695 times” in turning over immigrant data to ICE

Need to decide on public and private data: SC Defining what constitutes "public data" and "private data" is crucial to determining the validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 and corresponding rules 2025, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it agreed to examine a petition challenging the law alongside a batch of similar petitions listed later this month. The petition raised concerns about state surveillance and other issues. (Sanjay Sharma) The court was dealing with a petition filed by journalist Geeta Sishu with the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) that raised concerns about state surveillance, exemptions given to state agencies to collect private data, compensation in cases of illicit or illegal access, lack of judicial oversight and the independence of the Data Protection Board that adjudicates complaints.

Need to decide on public and private data: SC

Defining what constitutes "public data" and "private data" is crucial to determining the validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 and corresponding rules 2025, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it agreed to examine a…

Of course. One is a dangerous threat to human rights and the rule of law, the other is a flexible pragmatic nimble effective solution to some of the hardest problems to ever face mankind.

You choose which is which.

Some good news from Australia on #FOIA. A timely reminder that transparency needs people to fight for it.

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Data Protection Update and Map - 2026 2025 was again a busy year for data protection globally, with both positive and negative developments. Several countries adopted new laws, improved existing laws, or introduced new bills and initiativ...

3. Full details (and better looking graph!) at

www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-p...

Bar chart showing growth of data protection laws from 1970s until 2025 in five year segments, from under ten to 170+. Line showing new laws adopted in those period increasing each period.

2. A bonus graph for this year, the growth of #dataprotection from the 1970's until today in 5 year chunks. Drop on end is because only one year 2025-29.

Data Protection Map update for International Data Protection Day. As of the end of 2025, 172 countries and self governing jurisdictions around the world have adopted comprehensive data protection legislation. Five countries adopted comprehensive data protection for the first time in 2025.

Freedom of Information is all grown up - it turns 21 this year!

Join us for a one day conference to celebrate, scrutinise, and share everything around #FOI in the UK: pretix.eu/mysociety/fo...

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The British state is addicted to secrecy - we need to fight back Our politicians and officials are using public money to keep citizens in the dark, says Heather Brooke

🔴"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When it’s withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few."

Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...

NCND for personal data – a qualified exemption? [reposted from my LinkedIn Account] I’ve been known to criticise First-tier Tribunal (FTT) judgments in the freedom of information jurisdiction. By contrast, this one is superb. In it, the FTT dism…

On my personal blog: FTT rather dismantles @ICOnews on both the facts and the law in this remarkable FOI judgment. Will the ICO have to rewrite their section 40 NCND guidance? informationrightsandwrongs.com/2025/11/29/n...

Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.

Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...

Teens are scarier than big tech cos. Speaking for a friend……

Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.

Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Transparency is critical for achieving sustainable marine fisheries, but it is not also as clear as it seems.

This #WorldFisheriesDay, take a deep dive into our #tBrief series to learn more about the many facets of fisheries transparency 👇
fiti.global/tbrief-series

Online grooming crimes have doubled since 2018, with victims as young as four, charity warns More than 7,200 offences were recorded by police in the year to March - almost twice the number for the 12 months to March 2018, with instant messaging app Snapchat used in 40% of the cases where a te...

📢FOI in the news!

Online grooming crimes double since 2018 with victims now as young as four, according to NSPCC obtained FOI data.

Instant messenger Snapchat used in 40% of the cases where a tech platform was identified.

news.sky.com/story/online...

Generative AI is Neither Too Unprecedented Nor Too New to Regulate | TechPolicy.Press It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, writes Sarah Barrington.

While some elements of AI are genuinely new, the harms it enables are evolutions of those we have seen before, writes Sarah Barrington. It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, she says.

It’s good that the UK Cabinet Office has the equivalent scheduled for release under the 112 1/2 year rule, commencing from death of its author.

✂️ The #EU Commission has set in motion a potentially massive #GDPR reform. Officially, the changes should only include targeted adjustments for several laws. In reality, the current draft would randomly mow down people's #privacy rights.

👉 Read more: noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...