federal privacy statutes The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow
david kaye Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials Cory Doctorow
Jawaharlal Nehru University An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow
rip aaron To do tonight in San Francisco: commemorating the sixth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death Cory Doctorow
plos Europe's massive plan to require open access for all science gets two new backers: Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation Cory Doctorow
securedrop Job opening: senior security engineer to work on SecureDrop and protect whistleblowers Cory Doctorow
Doug Collins Georgia Republican introduces legislation to kill PACER, the outrageous paywall around the US justice system Cory Doctorow
the public sphere not the elsevier Consortium of the largest science funders in Europe announce that they'll only fund open access research Cory Doctorow
nova scotia Nova Scotia abandons its attempt to destroy a teenager who stumbled on a wide-open directory of sensitive information Cory Doctorow
ass-covering cowardice Nova Scotia filled its public Freedom of Information Archive with citizens' private data, then arrested the teen who discovered it Cory Doctorow
if it's not published it's not science Cloudflare terminate Sci-Hub domains, declining to challenge court order Cory Doctorow
alchemy 65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each Cory Doctorow
authors alliance New tool helps authors claim their copyrights back from publishers (even "perpetual assignments") Cory Doctorow
free law project Every judicial decision has been liberated from the US court system's paywall Cory Doctorow
