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“I have a love-hate relationship with FOIA.”
“When you work in government, the people are your boss. And the boss has a right to see your work.”
18F works with various federal agencies to improve their digital presences.
“There’s all this information sitting out there that everyone has access to, but nobody has any idea that it’s even there. That’s the basis of the project.”
Only a small subset of news organizations currently use HTTPS to secure their connections to readers, but a variety of incentives — from Google’s search rules to browser makers’ policies — are pushing them in that direction.
Melody Kramer is trying to build the next generation of supporters for public media by letting them contribute by sharing a skill as well as their credit card number.