Transparency Group Launches Project To Document Google's Influence on Government
The Campaign for Accountability launched the Google Transparency Project aimed at exposing what it called the search company's "undue corporate influence on government," the group said in a Tuesday news release. "Google is the most prominent, yet under-explored case of…
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a deep-pocketed corporation that has forged successful and lucrative bonds with government officials and federal agencies." Researchers are releasing two datasets compiled through public sources -- more are planned -- and the group is encouraging a crowd-sourced review of the documents. One dataset provides information about White House visitor logs to document meetings between employees of Google and "related" companies with executive branch officials. The second dataset lists former Google employees working for the government and former government employees hired by the company. The company didn't comment. A spokesman for the nonprofit group said it doesn't disclose donors.