'Smart Grid' Company Demands MuckRock Turn Over Info On Anyone Who Might Have...
Earlier this year, FOIA enthusiast/privacy activist Phil Mocek requested documents from Seattle City Light, the city’s public-owned utility. Mocek was seeking info on the utility’s proposed “smart...
View ArticleCourt Says MuckRock Must Take Down Smart Grid Company's Documents Because...
Last week, we covered a multinational corporation’s attempt to force MuckRock to take down documents supplied by the city of Seattle to Phil Mocek. Landis+Gyr, which was awarded the contract to supply...
View ArticleCourt Dumps Hastily-Granted Restraining Order, Says MuckRock Can Publish...
It took a little less than a week, but the EFF, with the invaluable assistance of Venkat Balasubramani of FOCAL PLLC, has persuaded a Washington state judge to strike down the temporary restraining...
View ArticleMuckRock & Vice Announce Fellowship To Investigate Peter Thiel
So this is interesting. MuckRock, the really useful FOIA platform (that I regularly use for filing FOIA requests), has announced what it’s calling MuckRock’s Thiel Fellowship, in which it’s offering to...
View ArticleEFF Heads To Court To Fight Off Smart Grid Company That Can't Wrap Its Mind...
Apparently the legal battle between a bunch of contractors providing “smart meter” equipment to the city of Seattle and FOIA clearinghouse MuckRock isn’t over. The last time we checked in, a judge had...
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CIA Admits It Hasn't Touched FOIA Request In Six Years… Says It Will Close...
Back in 2011, MuckRock user Jason Smathers filed a FOIA with the CIA for all responses they had sent to requesters containing the term “record systems.” This was a reference to two earlier rejections...
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Database CIA Claimed Too Difficult To Compile For FOIA Requesters Released In...
The CIA has millions of declassified records stashed away in Maryland — something it claimed was accessible to the public. Actual access, however, resembles something out of Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil,”...
View ArticleLicense Plate Reader Company Says Public Records Requests For ALPR Documents...
It turns out the most oppressed demographic in this country is the one with power, guns, unions, extra rights, and plenty of civil immunity. Law enforcement agencies around the country currently...
View ArticleMuckRock Release ALPR Dataset Covering 200 Gov't Agencies And 2.5 Billion...
MuckRock has concluded its national automatic license plate reader survey. Or, at least, it’s as close to completed as humanly possible, what with more than a handful of agencies still refusing to turn...
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Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence...
Back in December, we wrote about Appin. We were not writing about the reports (of which there have been many) that the organization that started as a sort of cybersecurity training school, but morphed...
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