Comment on Portugal’s New Anti-Corruption Tool: Flagged €110B in Suspicious Contracts
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
This looks incredible and I wish I could get more information about how it was made, and whether we have our own.
The wiring is less thrilling.
The premise is deliberately careful: not to pronounce guilt, but to surface cases .. This is not a finished watchdog machine; it is infrastructure under construction… Its public roadmap points not only to Portuguese procurement data but to a broader European layer.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Corruption is so entrenched in Portugal that unlike pretty much anywhere in the World Libel is an actual CRIME prosecuted by the local version of the Public Prosecution Office, which in practice means that no actual damage has to be proven and only people with the proper political connections (i.e. politicians) get to be “protected” by this Law.
Oh, and in a country infamous by an extremelly slow Court system, they in practice expedite Libel cases where politicians are the “victim”.
So even descriptions of systems to detect Corruption have to be very carefully done so as to not even imply that anything caught by them is actually Corruption.
I’m Portuguese and, having also lived elsewhere in Europe, firmly believe that in the domains of Politics and Law, Portugal is basically South America rather than Europe.