#transparency-and-disclosure

#transparency-and-disclosure

The arrangement works like this: Major corporations contribute undisclosed sums to the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit handling fundraising for the 90,000-square-foot ballroom annex. In return, donors reportedly receive White House dinner invitations and potential name inscriptions inside the building, tangible symbols of access to an administration their news divisions scrutinize daily. This isn't merely optics. It's a structural conflict that undermines the premise of independent journalism.

California Governor Newsom has signed S.B. 524, a bill that begins the long process of regulating and imposing transparency on the growing problem of AI-written police reports. EFF supported this bill and has spent the last year vocally criticizing the companies pushing AI-generated police reports as a service. requires police to disclose, on the report, if it was used to fully or in part author a police report. Further, it bans vendors from selling or sharing the information a police agency provided to the AI.