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4 Aug 2017, 5:30 am by Randy Milch
  Senator Wyden has long been critical of prosecutions under the CFAA, and in 2013 introduced a series of CFAA amendments as part of “Aaron’s Law” in the wake of Aaron Swartz’s tragic suicide as he awaited trial for an alleged CFAA violation. [read post]
7 Jul 2017, 2:23 pm by jamie
EFF has also been pushing for CFAA reform for years and increased those efforts after the tragic death of programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. [read post]
17 May 2017, 12:01 pm by aaron
This year’s Pioneers will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes the late visionary activist Aaron Swartz; open source pioneer Limor "Ladyada" Fried; and the documentarian and journalist Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, among many remarkable activists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others. 2016 Pioneer Award winners & EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. [read post]
21 Jan 2017, 9:05 am by Jim Walker
Swartz was featured in a video trying her best to appear apologetic as part of Princess' multi-media response to the revelations. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 12:15 pm by Elliot Harmon
While being unfairly prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Aaron Swartz took his own life on January 11, 2013. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 10:45 am by Cyrus Farivar
Aaron Swartz at the Creative Commons Salon, San Francisco, in 2006. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 2:09 pm by Jeremy Malcolm
An open letter linked from Library Genesis contains a quote from the late Aaron Swartz: We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 5:27 pm
As the article explains, "Ortiz also drew fire after her office sought to prosecute 26-year-old Aaron Swartz on allegations he surreptitiously used the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's network to download millions of articles from a scholarly archive with the goal of making them freely available. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 7:22 pm
" And Daniel Marans of The Huffington Post reports that "Appeals Court Deals Rebuke To Controversial Prosecutor Who Targeted Aaron Swartz; U.S. [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 12:47 pm by Gennie Gebhart
., activist Aaron Swartz also met unjust charges on 13 criminal counts for downloading millions of articles from academic journal database JSTOR. [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 5:07 pm by Kate Tummarello
This weekend you have the chance to add to Aaron Swartz’s legacy by boosting tools for whistleblowers. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 1:23 pm by Jamie Williams
Prosecutors used the law’s harsh maximum punishments as a ploy to capture the public’s attention and induce a plea bargain in their tragic case against Aaron Swartz. [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 2:33 pm by Orin Kerr
Vachani, the Aaron Swartz prosecution and United States v. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 1:43 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
Most notoriously, the law was used to pursue Aaron Swartz, the young programmer who committed suicide after being charged with mass-downloading research papers from an MIT database, in violation of its terms of service—despite the fact that he was then a research fellow at MIT, with authorized access to the involved database. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 1:43 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
Most notoriously, the law was used to pursue Aaron Swartz, the young programmer who committed suicide after being charged with mass-downloading research papers from an MIT database, in violation of its terms of service—despite the fact that he was then a research fellow at MIT, with authorized access to the involved database. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 1:43 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
Most notoriously, the law was used to pursue Aaron Swartz, the young programmer who committed suicide after being charged with mass-downloading research papers from an MIT database, in violation of its terms of service—despite the fact that he was then a research fellow at MIT, with authorized access to the involved database. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 11:30 am by Ana Acosta and Elliot Harmon
Many people reading this remember the tragic story of Aaron Swartz. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 9:32 am by Jennifer Baker
Love is alleged to have been involved in the hack known as #OpLastResort, which targeted the US Army, the US Federal Reserve, the FBI, NASA, and the Missile Defense Agency in retaliation over the suicide, while awaiting trial, of Aaron Swartz. [read post]