'Watchdogs' Category

• scroogle

  February 15, 2006

  Have you heard of Scroogle? This is a search interface — created by the non-profit org google-watch. Put in your search term into the “google scraper” (there’s also one available for yahoo!), scroogle searches google, and returns google results WITHOUT ads, WITHOUT cookies and WITHOUT search term records (their access log is deleted within 48 [...]

  

  posted in Technology & Society, Watchdogs by James R. Jacobs

• Report on Regulatory Agencies

  September 23, 2004

  OMB Watch – Administration Obstructs Regulation Across Agencies, Fails to Complete 70% of Rules WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 15, 2004, Noon — An analysis of four key federal agencies charged with safeguarding the public’s air, water, food, health, transportation and workplaces reveals consistent and widespread obstruction, neglect and weakening of protections. The report attributes the pattern [...]

  

  posted in Watchdogs by jajacobs

• Secrecy in the Bush Administration

  September 23, 2004

  Special Investigations Rep. Henry A. Waxman has released a comprehensive examination of secrecy in the Bush Administration. The report analyzes how the Administration has implemented each of our nation’s major open government laws. It finds that there has been a consistent pattern in the Administration’s actions: laws that are designed to promote public access to [...]

  

  posted in Watchdogs by James R. Jacobs