Events
View it here. "What can ordinary people do? Support and promote projects that are acting at scale. WikiLeaks is my realisation of this tension, but there are a flood of others starting. The clash between diversity and global uniformity which has been created by wiring the world to itself
Transparency
A "handy infographic illustrating EFF's current Freedom of Information Act caseload" via eff.org.
Events
“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. Research funding agencies, universities, and the general public are supporting
Free Speech
Press release from EFF.org: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal judge today to protect the free speech rights of an online archive of laws and legal standards after a wrongheaded copyright claim forced the removal of a document detailing important technical standards required by the federal government
Government 2.0
In late January, Aaron Greenspan announced "Operation Asymptote" to the influential Liberation Technologies mailing list: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=85http://www.plainsite.org/asymptote/index.html I looked into Operation Asymptote, and recommend it as an effective and poetic tribute to Aaron Swartz'
Events
Last week, I attended the monthly meeting for Open Austin, a group which has been around for several years promoting better governance through open technologies. I'm writing to draw attention to their recent successes and increasing importance to the City of Austin. There's an interesting history
Activism
See also http://weblogsky.com/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz-1986-2013/
Privacy
Being a sequence of quotations from contemporary articles contextualizing the visit of the rising Vice President of China amidst a conspicuously timed introduction of unprecedented domestic cybersecurity legislation. National Post Full Comment (Feb 14) - "From bitter gruel, Xi Jinping to ascend to China's top job"
Government 2.0
This post concludes EFF Austin's investigation of DART's #OpWardrive; here's our initial post, announcement of operation cancellation, and update on the open records request. In our last post, we summarized our inquiry into the City of Austin Police Department's Digital Analysis Response
Privacy
In late September, the Austin Police Department (APD) aimed to identify open residential wireless access points around the city and educate their owners about the risks of providing free Internet access. The initiative, dubbed Operation Wardrive, was announced by an APD Public Information Office press release which was quickly picked
Government 2.0
On Wednesday September 21st, EFF Austin [ @EFFaustin ] was notified about the Austin Police Department's (APD) Digital Analysis Response Team's [ DART, @APDDART ] "Operation Wardrive" [ #OpWardrive ] via the KVUE [ @KVUE ] news article that originally appeared at the following URI (it's relatively common for journalism
Free Speech
View "#BART Special Board Meeting re: Cellphone Shutdown & Protests" on Storify Earlier: BART’s Protest Position Does Not Withstand Legal Scrutiny