Sentences with phrase «public transparency only»

The Times wrote that as Facebook's security team became increasingly concerned about information they were finding about nation - state manipulation of content on the platform (particularly Russia), they pushed for more disclosure and public transparency only to be met with resistance from legal and policy teams concerned it could destabilize the business.

Not exact matches

According to Simpson, Waymo would be using public roads as its â $ laboratoriesâ $ and civilians as its â $ guinea pigs; â $ hence, it is only appropriate for the DMV to provide full transparency.

How many more revelations like this will we have before the scientific community learn the lesson that transparency is the only way to ensure public trust?

These stories only serve to strengthen the argument that Britain is sacrificing its sovereignity through further engagement in Europe; more clear and easily accessible information on financial arrangements and, if lacking in transparency, reformation of these institutions could shake Britain out of its comfort zone and force us into serious public consideration of the Euro.

The president of the Rochester Business Alliance, Sandra Parker, serves on the Committee to Save NY Board — a list that was made public only after the CSNY came under fire for its lack of transparency.

It is only through increased transparency, sound governance, and professional management that public confidence and trust can be restored.

Only certain areas — information on lobbying activity, fines and penalties, and the disclosure reports «filed pursuant to section seventy - three - a of the public officers law» — are subject to New York's transparency laws.

For others however, it is concerning that the governor who pledged utmost transparency appears to only be interested in interacting with the public of his choosing and has limited his press interaction.

The foreign minister Alan Duncan, however, said the government would only pressure the territories to adopt new transparency measures when they became a global standard, and insisted that an EU commitment to introduce public registers did not meet that threshold.

GP - write debuted prematurely in May 2016, when an invitation - only meeting at Harvard became public and sparked a media firestorm about the lack of transparency for an initiative that to some people sounded like a plan to create genetically enhanced humans — the leaders say it isn't, although Church wasn't shy when musing about designer humans in a 2012 book he authored.

Transparency is a hallmark of good science (and good journalism), but when we push for more of it only when it benefits us directly, yet oppose the types of disclosure the public overwhelmingly wants, we look like hypocrites or worse.

No «punitive implications» «The U.S. philosophy is that when you do deals that are not legally binding, transparency is the only thing you've got to connect commitments with public and political pressure.

QUINN: So NOAA's policy is part of this Administration's and NOAA's leadership's effort to create transparency in the government and one thing that is outlined in the policy is that scientists can communicate their research to the public and that scientists can not only communicate their research, but they can also communicate their opinions to the public and I think that's a very important aspect of the policy.

(Physician and transparency advocate Ben Goldacre has pointed out that the vote is only a first step because it does not make public the data for already approved drugs.)

Washington Examiner: Study: Transparency in collective bargaining could save taxpayers $ 50 billion A Goldwater Institute report reveals that only seven states mandate open negotiations for public sector unions.

We want to be leaders in transparency and accountability in the state — shining a light on our areas of growth so we can continuously improve and offer South Carolina kids what they deserve — only the most excellent public school choice options.

Doing this will require complete candor and transparency about the current status of public education in Texas in addition to confronting the enormous vested interests that sustain not only the current system that has been in business for almost a century as well as those who benefit, politically and otherwise, from the image of the «Texas Miracle».

I had to file a Freedom of Information request in order to get a copy of the paperwork on the Gates grant and what I received was only the partial information, because as Connecticut taxpayers will have learned from the Jumoke / FUSE fiasco, while charter schools consistently argue they are «public» when it comes to accepting money from the state, they are quick to claim that they are private institutions when it comes to transparency and accountability.

Only district and charter schools can deliver on the promise of quality school choice with both transparency and accountability in the use of public dollars.

Whatever you think of this particular effort, it has become ever clearer that climate information not only «wants» to be free, but will be — whether through pressure for further transparency and objectivity on the part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the liberation / hacking / theft / disclosure of climate documents produced with government money, whether they raise questions about the motives of some scientists or reveal attempts by political operatives to raise public doubt about climate findings.

(Roughly translated: Not only do we make the commitment to openness and transparency, but we will also ensure the implementation of commitments by the supervision of the law and public opinion.

129 In the third place, as regards the argument that the disclosure of documents relating to the ACTA could only have reinforced the public interest with regard to international relations and avoid controversy arising from the leaked publication of certain proposals, it should be noted that, while it is true that the purpose of Regulation No 1049/2001 is to ensure maximum transparency by giving the fullest possible effect to the right of public access to documents of the European Union (recital 4 of the regulation), it nevertheless provides exceptions to the right of access to protect certain public or private interests, and in the present case, the public interest as regards international relations.

As a rule, disclosure may only be refused on the basis of a limited set of exceptions found in Regulation (EC) no 1049/2001 (hereinafter the Transparency Regulation), to be interpreted restrictively and subject to the absence of an overriding public interest in disclosure.

The wide - spread application of transparency under the Convention would not only enhance the accountability of the underlying investor - State relations, but also enable better public control of the arbitral process.

Not only did the judge denounce the notion that a prosecutor could legitimately recommend a sentence to the court based on antecedent negotiations with the defendant it also held that the court should consider the terms of the deal itself: «A court must rigorously scrutinise in open court in the interests of transparency and good governance, the basis of that plea and to see whether it reflects public interest.»

The Commission is of the view that transparency is not only concerned with the public availability of information.