NEW: 🚨 @business & I defeated ODNI & DOJ's use of a GLOMAR in our #FOIA case (HUGE) for a copy of Trump's declassification standing order
Surprise! Now the agencies have officially confirmed to us they have no record of Trump's standing order
The disclosure by the agencies was made in response to a FOIA lawsuit @business & I filed last August against ODNI & Justice Dept’s national security division for a copy of Trump’s so-called standing order — if one existed.
ICE previously withheld 567 pages in full and redacted 50 pages out of 627 about #BlueLeaks
Thanks to my #FOIA appeal, they'll be releasing more.
Initial release revealed law enforcement tried to look at the legal fund setup when DHS started knocking on doors and offering random activists money to become snitches against #DDoSecrets in general and me specifically
JUDGE RULES Josh Hawley's #Missouri AG's office must pay nearly quarter million $ ($242,385.38) for its lawbreaking conduct & public record concealment during the 2018 election.
A big win for transparency, election fairness, and the rule of law. 💪🏼
#FOIA
Instead of sticking taxpayers with a record verdict, Senator Hawley should step up and 1) apologize to the people of Missouri and 2) donate proceeds from "Manhood" to cover this bill. #legal
FDIC mistakenly released this document to @business & me in response to my #FOIA request that reveals SVB's top 10 depositors & shows that big VC & tech companies got a backstop for billions in uninsured deposits
The FDIC asked that @business destroy & not share the depositor list, saying the agency intended to “partially” withhold some details from the document “because it included confidential commercial or financial information”
If you're a journalist who's used ChatGPT or another LLM in crafting #FOIA/public records requests, appeals, reviewing docs, etc, would be very interested in chatting. Get in touch!
Hello #IRE23! Interested in the potential uses of #chatgpt in #FOIA and public records issues? Come learn about how it stacks up (and much more, including strategies for records requests and records!) Friday at 9am, Oceans 5&7.
Dopo 9 mesi di inchieste, 140 giornalisti di 27 paesi hanno presentato #FOIA e raccolto informazioni su violazioni ambientali da parte di aziende, registri di importazione di prodotti forestali, atti giudiziari, rapporti di società di revisione, sanzioni e certificati #green rilasciati a aziende del settore dei prodotti forestali.
... noticed a video on the side with truncated title of
"Missing No More: Using #AI to Fill in the #Gaps of ...".
That got me of thinking of filling in the gaps of results of #FOIA requests which are sometime redacted to the point of being useless. The way training that currently works could pull information otherwise inaccessible. Yes, that could also fill in false or manufactured "information".
After years of running up against a brick wall, the first crack
Ruling on our #FOIA,Judge orders the #CrownProsecutionService to come clean about the destruction of key documents on Julian #Assange. And the British Labour MP, John McDonnell, has obtained new info on it and asks for an independent inquiry:
@penguin42 unfortunately no... the https://www.foia.gov/ portal is wonderful for submitting #FOIA requests, although I did send a followup query via fax. Do you think they still use typewriters, too?
At what point while dreaming up utopic futures where robots perform all the menial hard labor for no money leaving humanity to pursue meaningful lives of leisure writing music and making art did my parents generation fuck up and instead create the opposite
Instead of obligating the global human population to identify itself, the #AI companies (and organizations) set to rake in billions of dollars in the coming decades**, should be obliged to imprint each and every content the generate with #LLM's with...
In response to my #FOIA request for the FBI file on Harry Belafonte, the bureau said any potentially responsive records on the late singer and activist were destroyed.
Second CD from #FBI#FOIA for China's Honker Union hacktivist group arrived, will be uploading to archive dot org and linking from here shortly. #hacker#hacking#history#histodons
In response to my #FOIA request and others, the FBI just released 314 pages of documents on the former Independent Counsel, much of which pertains to death threats he received in the 90s.