Reason Writers Around Town: Katherine Mangu-Ward in WSJ on Transparency Chic

A bunch of geeks are begging, borrowing, and stealing government documents in the pursuit of transparency chic. In today's Wall Street Journal, Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward follows one merry band of information liberationists as they lift court docs from behind a paywall. If these geeks keep it up, she writes, the government may someday have even less privacy online than its citizens. 

Read all about it here. 

Comments

[John-David]

The Wired.com article was better, since it actually gave the location where the freed PACER documents are (recapthelaw.org).

[Alan Vanneman]

"President Obama may have come to Washington promising greater transparency, but progress has been less than impressive."

Last time I checked, it was the Chief Justice of the United States, not the President of the United States, who is in charge of the federal courts system.

That said, I totally applaud the movement to make federal court records actually assessible to the people.

[Anonymous]

Transparency is required under the three-branch Democrat government. How else are you going to be able to see outside of your cell?