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White House Pulls Down TSA Petition
Jeremiah Cornelius writes with a note that on Thursday of this week “The Electronic Privacy Information Center posted a brief and detailed notice about the removal of a petition regarding security...
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Get Access to the President’s Documents With New App
The United States government launched a free new mobile app Wednesday that lets anybody with a smartphone view a handful of the president’s documents. The Presidential Documents App, developed by the...
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DEVELOPING: Moran’s Son Resigns from Campaign Following Video Release
Patrick Moran, the son of 11-term incumbent Rep. Jim Moran (D), has resigned from his father’s campaign following the release of a video (above) that purports to show him going along with a scheme to...
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"We the People" API To Be Released
Kwyj1b0 writes “The Whitehouse plans to open up the APIs to its ‘We the People’ initiative. The first set of Read APIs (allowing anyone to read data on petitions) will be released in March 2013. In...
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Map Shows Where 220mph Trains Would Go in the U.S.
Whether a high-speed rail system ever gets built in the United States is still up in the air, but if it is, artist and activist Alfred Twu has figured out exactly where those speedy rail lines should...
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Upcoming State of the Union Will Be Interactive
The White House is planning a series of digital follow-ons to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, including a tool called Citizen Response that people can use to share specific parts of the...
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Black Hat vs. White Hat Social Media Marketing
When it comes to social media marketing, there is a long list of best practices and worst practices that brand managers should be aware of. Sometimes the lines of good and bad get blurry, and even...
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White House Releases We the People API to the Public
Back in February, ProgrammableWeb reported that The White House had released a new We the People API to a select group of developers at the February 2013 White House Open Data Day Hackathon. The White...
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The White House opens the data floodgates, and now the real work will begin
President Obama on Thursday signed an executive order making open data the default policy for the federal government. This is a hugely significant move, although one that can and will have its openness...
View ArticleU.S. Government Has Only Met Half of Its Transparency Commitments
The U.S. has only completed half the commitments it made two years ago under an international government transparency agreement, an independent auditor found recently. That’s in stark contrast to a...
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