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23 Aug 2021, 11:16 am
Previous honorees have included Malkia Cyril, William Gibson, danah boyd, Aaron Swartz, and Chelsea Manning.For past Pioneer Award Winners: https://www.eff.org/pioneer/past-winnersTo register for this event: https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/event/register? [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 12:44 pm
We remember how Aaron Swartz was charged under the grossly unfair and outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 7:56 am
Carmen Ortiz, a federal prosecutor, did exactly that to our friend Aaron Swartz. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 12:45 pm
Previous honorees have included Aaron Swartz, Citizen Lab, Richard Stallman, and Anita Borg. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 4:30 am
And it is ironic that Judge Baylson should seek to justify federal prosecutors’ prior policy of charging the most serious provable crime as “truth in charging” when, as the Aaron Swartz case mentioned by his father and described below illustrates, the policy often has served not as a reflection of what everyone understood was the true nature of the alleged crime, but as a device to help extract a guilty plea to a lesser offense. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 9:05 am
The late internet activist Aaron Swartz was this year’s recipient of the ALA James Madison Award, while winners of Sunshine in Government Award included Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) for his commitment to openness and transparency, and Environmental Protection Agency employees Tim Crawford and Larry Gottesman, who created FOIAOnline. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 12:52 pm
Check out this interesting profile of Aaron Swartz by Noam Scheiber in the New Republic. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 9:27 am
MIT released a report on its role in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the internet freedom advocate who broke into the Institute’s campus and network, and stole millions of files from JSTOR. [read post]
19 May 2014, 7:05 am
How many people like Aaron Swartz are there, bullied and threatened with inflated accusations? [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 9:45 am
Past recipients include the Mississippi College of Law Library for its Legislative History Project (2014); Aaron Swartz, awarded posthumously, Internet Activist, co-founder of Demand Progress (2013); Michele Timmons, Revisor of Statutes, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes and Chair of the Drafting Committee for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (2012); Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (2011); the Legal… [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 3:57 pm
A Firefox plug-in called RECAP, created by Princeton students, uploads court documents to a public archive any time a user goes into the system, while programmer Aaron Swartz took advantage of a pilot program offering free access to download 18 million court documents (that earned him an FBI investigation). [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 3:30 am
” This decision may be of particular interest to FTT readers who followed efforts by CITP’s former Executive Director Steve Schultze and the late Aaron Swartz to make publicly filed briefs and other documents from the federal courts’ electronic docketing system, PACER, freely available to the public. [read post]
18 Jan 2014, 5:36 am
There are also lots of signs that things need to change, and copyright issues are still of serious concern: Only a year ago Aaron Swartz was hounded to death by zealous prosecutors fulfilling a copyright maximalist agenda. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 7:52 am
There's an enchanting little piece about burned DVDs being given away with every purchase of a $5 jewel case here on the 1709 Blog. and if that's not exciting enough, the same blog comes with news of the obituary of Willie the Wizard v Harry Potter and a guest post on the cause celebre in the making, the prosecution of Aaron Swartz. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 6:14 am
Past recipients include Aaron Swartz, awarded posthumously, Internet Activist, co-founder of Demand Progress (2013); Michele Timmons, Revisor of Statutes, Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes and Chair of the Drafting Committee for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (2012); Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (2011); the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School (2010); the Sunlight Foundation (2009); and Gary… [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]
10 Feb 2014, 3:22 pm
Tal como lo señaló el desaparecido líder activista Aaron Swartz, ese día “nos hicimos héroes de nuestra propia historia. [read post]
8 Apr 2013, 6:47 am
So did the tragedy of Aaron Swartz’s death. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 5:51 am
Aaron Swartz, for crying out loud. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 8:34 am
But the feds have stretched and distorted ambiguous federal computer statutes to prosecute the likes of Lori Drew (federally prosecuted for creating a fake MySpace account to mock her daughter's rival), Aaron Swartz (prosecuted for mass-downloading scholarly articles to make them free to all), or the troll Weev (prosecuted for guessing URLs correctly to demonstrate a serious flaw in AT&T's online security). [read post]
