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22 Sep 2020, 4:19 pm by Jason Kelley
These costs add up quickly, and have been criticized by open-government activists such as the late Aaron Swartz and Public.Resource.Org. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 9:49 am by Rebecca Jeschke
Previous honorees have included Malkia Cyril, William Gibson, danah boyd, Aaron Swartz, and Chelsea Manning. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 2:08 pm by Hannah Diaz
This year’s winners will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes the visionary activist Aaron Swartz, global human rights and security researchers The Citizen Lab, open-source pioneer Limor "Ladyada" Fried, and whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, among many remarkable journalists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others. 2019 Barlows The Pioneer Award Ceremony depends on the generous support of individuals and companies with passion for… [read post]
6 May 2020, 8:27 am by Lewis Gittens
We’ve added other types of events since then, for example, Dave organized a wonderful screening and panel discussion of the movie, "The Internet's Own Boy’, in honor of Aaron Swartz Day.How has using a space like a public library improved the accessibility of your events? [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 11:56 am by Hayley Tsukayama
Join EFF and others on November 9 at the Internet Archive for Aaron Swartz Day—an annual event to celebrate Aaron Swartz’s legacy as an activist, programmer, entrepreneur, and political organizer. 
 Aaron’s life was cut short in 2013, after he was charged under the notoriously draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR. [read post]
4 Aug 2019, 3:22 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Follow up to previous posting on BeSpacific – Science’s pirate queen Alexandra Elbakyan is plundering the academic publishing establishment (includes multiple sub-links) and SciHub continues to get attacked around the world – via Boing Boing: “Sci-Hub (previously) is a scrappy, nonprofit site founded in memory of Aaron Swartz, dedicated to providing global access to the world’s scholarship — journal articles that generally report on… [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 12:00 am by Hannah Diaz
SecureDrop, developed by Aaron Swartz & Kevin Poulsen to facilitate secure communication between whistleblowers and journalists, will help bring sunshine to dark places. [read post]
22 May 2019, 1:51 pm by Hannah Diaz
This year’s winners will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes the visionary activist Aaron Swartz, global human rights and security researchers The Citizen Lab, open-source pioneer Limor "Ladyada" Fried, and whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, among many remarkable journalists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 1:52 pm by Cindy Cohn
Just a few years ago this same statute was used by federal prosecutors to find something, anything, they could use to charge our friend Aaron Swartz. [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 1:52 pm by Aaron Jue
Previous honorees have included Aaron Swartz, Douglas Engelbart, Richard Stallman, and Anita Borg. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 10:46 am by Karen Gullo
”The current version is now being made publicly available for user testing, as part of the Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon festivities. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 10:41 am by Hayley Tsukayama
Join EFF and others on November 10 and 11 to celebrate the sixth annual Aaron Swartz Day, with a weekend of lectures, a virtual reality fair and a hackathon. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 7:31 am by Allan Blutstein
.) -- affirming district court's decision that FBI properly withheld records pertaining to deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz pursuant to Exemptions 3, 6, 7(C), and 7(E), but remanding portion of case pertaining to redacted records disclosed to plaintiff following appellate oral arguments. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 1:16 pm by Andrew Keane Woods
And the CFAA was the blunt instrument used to prosecute the late Aaron Swartz for obtaining access “without authorization and in excess of authorized access” to JSTOR through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s network to download a large number of academic journal articles. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 12:27 pm by Dave Maass
EFF has long criticized how stretched interpretations of the federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act have resulted in the prosecution of computer scientists, such as Aaron Swartz. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 4:03 pm by jamie
On November 4 and 5, the Internet Archive will host the Fifth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and Hackathon. [read post]