We can expect that anytime the President deals with something important and consequential that if there is no preset standard... View Article
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Yesterday, the Obama administration made a few new announcements about its vision for technology in government. Between the Presidential Memorandum,... View Article
Continue readingSunlight and Allies to Department of Labor: No Website Scrubbing
The following letter was just sent to the Department of Labor, on behalf of Sunlight and a number of our... View Article
Continue readingCISPA is Terrible for Transparency
The new cybersecurity bill, CISPA, or HR 3523, is terrible on transparency. The bill proposes broad new information collection and... View Article
Continue readingSTOCK Act to be Signed Today
A few of us at Sunlight are excited to be going to the bill signing ceremony for the STOCK Act... View Article
Continue readingThe Missing Open Data Policy
Open data policies aren’t doing nearly as much good as they can, because they usually fail to require new information... View Article
Continue readingTransparency Works Next Week in Vilnius
Next week Andrew Pendleton and I will be joining our colleagues at Transparency International Lithuania for the Transparency Works event... View Article
Continue readingFINRA Data Should be Open
Sunlight just submitted comments to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, on their plan to improve the way information... View Article
Continue readingWhite House Launches Ethics.gov
After a long wait, the White House is today launching Ethics.gov (at Explore.data.gov/ethics ), fulfilling the President’s campaign promise to... View Article
Continue readingColbert Supports DISCLOSE
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi was the guest on last night’s Colbert Report, following on House Democrats’ recently introduced DISCLOSE Act... View Article
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