Heavy Lifts
Andrew Hyder of Hack Your City, Thomas Apodaca and the folks at MySociety have put the 4,799 page transcript of the Ferguson Grand Jury testimony into the SayIt transcript platform, making the text linkable and searchable.
In the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage political science blog, Dave Karpf explains why political emails don’t stop after an election is over. In case you didn’t already know why.
While Uber has been in the news, its chief competitor Lyft has been quietly doing its own internal housekeeping to tighten up control over how much data its employees can access on users and drivers, reports Charlie Warzel for BuzzFeed.
And, as if on cue, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has a bunch of privacy questions for Lyft, reports Alex Wilhelm for TechCrunch.
Blake Ross has a pretty sarcastic and funny take on Medium on how the Nevada government has tried and failed, so far, to curb abusive “longhauling” by taxi drivers ripping off tourists coming from the airport to Las Vegas that implies, quite heavily, that only Uber can fix this problem.
Google is giving $1 million to support the New York Public Library’s new program to give 10,000 low-income city public school students free home wi-fi hotspots,