Government
Feb. 24, 2014
Transparency is the new black
Twitter was right to criticize the DOJ's settlement with Internet companies, saying the deal lacked in "meaningful or sufficient transparency for the public."
Nate Cardozo
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Nate is on the EFF's digital civil liberties team, focusing on free speech and privacy litigation, and was the 2009-10 Open Government Legal Fellow. He works on EFF's "Who Has Your Back?" report and Coders' Rights Project, and has projects involving automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, electronic privacy law reform, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state.
"Secrecy in government is fundamentally anti-democratic ... Open debate and discussion of public issues are vital to our national health. On public questions there should be 'uninhibited, robust, and wide-open' debate." New York Times Co. v. U.S., (the "Pentagon Papers" case) 403 U.S. 713, 724 (1971) (Douglas, J., concurring).
While Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote his concurring opinion in the Pentagon Papers case more than 40 years ago, its rel...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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