Monthly archives: September, 2025

404 Media Suing ICE for its $2 Million Spyware Contract

404 Media: “On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Government, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Inside The Effort To Save Hundreds Of Environmental Datasets Purged Under Trump

Forbes “Jessie Mahr led a team that restored critical climate data removed from public access under the Trump administration. Now, she’s pioneering a wider effort to fill data gaps in federal policy… As of September, PEDP had archived seven tools and 362 datasets — with 75 more in progress, Mahr told Forbes. The smallest datasets …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, E-Government, E-Records, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management

Privacy Act Lawsuits and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

CRS Legal Sidebar – Privacy Act Lawsuits and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) September 17, 2025. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order reorganizing and renaming the U.S. Digital Service as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Executive Order tasked DOGE with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Chermak, S. et al., 2024. What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, National Institute of Justice. United States of America. Retrieved from https://coilink.org/20.500.12592/gf1vpg0 on 23 Sep 2025. COI: 20.500.12592/gf1vpg0. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. This article discusses the findings of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Statistical Tables for the Federal Judiciary

Detailed statistical tables address the work of the U.S. courts of appeals, district courts and bankruptcy courts, as well as the federal probation and pretrial services system. The Judicial Caseload Indicators table compares data for the current 12-month period to that for the same period 1, 5, and 10 years earlier. Last updated: June 30, …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

SciOp is part of Safeguarding Research & Culture

SciOp is part of Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC). As a website and a group of people, SciOp is dedicated to ensuring that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear. As software, SciOp is dreaming …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Education, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Database tracks global regulatory readiness

World Bank Blogs: “In an increasingly connected world, digital trade is transforming how goods, services, and data move across borders. From online marketplaces and virtual professional services to cloud computing and digital payments, the digital economy represents a vital engine for growth and inclusion. Digital trade refers to trade in goods and services that are …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation

OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues.

Washington Post and free via MSN: “OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, can create high-definition clips of just about anything you could ask for — a breakthrough in artificial intelligence expected to transform the entertainment industry. But whose data OpenAI used to create its groundbreaking system is a mystery. With ChatGPT, OpenAI helped popularize the now-standard …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management

Right-Wing Extremists Drive Majority of U.S. Political Violence

profulus – Measuring Political Violence in the United States by Ideological Alignment: Right-Wing Actors Dominate Incidents of Politically Motivated Violence. The Landscape of Domestic Political Violence: “Political violence in the U.S. refers to violent acts motivated by political beliefs, ideologies, or partisan affiliations. These range from hate crimes and extremist attacks to targeted assassinations and …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research