Civio pulls back the curtain on public algorithms: Spain’s Supreme Court orders the Government to release BOSCO’s source code
The precedent-setting ruling states that public decision-making algorithms require transparency and oversight. The court rejects claims that national security or intellectual property can absolutely limit what it calls a constitutional right to public information.
Spanish National Police stop using Veripol, its star AI for detecting false reports
The Ministry of the Interior states that they have rejected its use because it is not valid in judicial proceedings.
Transparency delayed is not transparency at all: Italy, Germany and Spain allow slowest replies to public information requests
In practice, compliance with transparency laws in Europe is worse due to lack of resources, arbitrary application of limits or lack of enforceability by administrations.
Civio wins the first major battle for transparency in Spain
Thanks to this, all citizens may request - and receive - public information produced prior to the implementation of the Spanish Transparency Law in December 2014.
English and Swiss doctors are more transparent than German and Spanish ones
All these countries publish a declared portion – how much each doctor received from each firm – and an anonymous portion, published as an aggregate figure without names. It is partial transparency.
Civio's footprint in a more transparent public procurement
Congress has passed the new Procurement Law and we are now able to verify the impact we have had: the majority of Civio's anti-opacity recommendations have been included - either directly or indirectly - in the regulation. Let's look more closely at the mark we’ve made.
