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14 Jul 2016, 12:25 pm
Heymann, the Massachusetts federal prosecutor that handled the Aaron Swartz prosecution; security journalist Brian Krebs; Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the National Rifle Association; and Mike Rogers, a former GOP representative from Michigan and a key supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 7:56 am
Carmen Ortiz, a federal prosecutor, did exactly that to our friend Aaron Swartz. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 6:45 am
Internet activist Aaron Swartz was charged under that law and faced decades in prison before he took his own life in 2013. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 12:12 am
For example, we support Aaron’s law, named for Internet hero Aaron Swartz, which would begin to fix the federal CFAA. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 1:57 pm
Since the death of activist and Internet pioneer Aaron Swartz three and a half years ago, people from across the political spectrum have urged Congress to reform the CFAA. [read post]
19 May 2016, 10:17 am
“We have also urged Congress to adopt Aaron’s Law, named after late programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, who faced CFAA charges. [read post]
9 May 2016, 3:25 pm
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. 2015 Pioneer Award winners and presenters. [read post]
5 May 2016, 2:40 pm
Elsevier is the same New York publisher that the late Aaron Swartz had noted in his "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" that told academics and researchers they had a "duty" to free the knowledge they were privileged to read behind Elsevier's paywall. [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 7:00 am
Aaron Swartz would be proud of Alexandra Elbakyan. [read post]
11 Mar 2016, 6:31 am
That federal law, which was passed in 1984, was what the late activist Aaron Swartz was prosecuted under. [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 2:52 am
Upon reading the Daily Princetonian’s story of the nightmarish racist treatment of a Professor of African Studies, the first thought that popped into my mind was of the absurd complaints surrounding the Aaron Swartz prosecution. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 11:24 am
Many of Aaron’s writings have now been elegantly collected in The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 10:33 am
Maximum punishments are sometimes just a ploy to induce a defendant into a plea bargain or capture the public's attention, as we saw in the government's tragic case against Aaron Swartz. [read post]
26 Dec 2015, 9:39 am
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) reintroduced legislation—dubbed “Aaron’s Law” in honor of Internet hero Aaron Swartz—aimed at reining in some of that discretion. [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 5:15 pm
She also explained how fair use protects reverse engineering, and explored how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has been used by prosecutors to prey on innovators, including the late Aaron Swartz. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 8:31 am
Prosecutorial Discretion The government certainly seems to be making an example out of Matthew Keys—as it did in the tragic case of Aaron Swartz. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 4:25 pm
Some U.S. courts have rejected this interpretation, but prosecutions along these lines continue to waste police and court time and devastate innocent users’ lives—including that of Aaron Swartz, the prominent Internet writer, coder and activist, whose prosecution under the CFAA preceded his suicide. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 11:27 am
This weekend marks the third annual Aaron Swartz Day hackathon, and a chance for you to meet up with other people working to use technology to make the world a better place. [read post]
4 Nov 2015, 6:03 am
I was less impressed by how the podcast covers the CFAA outside the Keys case, and in particular its coverage of the Aaron Swartz case. [read post]
24 Oct 2015, 6:45 pm
Aaron Swartz spearheaded these efforts in 2013 when he downloaded millions of articles through MIT’s JSTOR account. [read post]
