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When Transparency Is A Matter Of Life And Death 27 Aug 2013 | 03:24 pm
Against a background of the leaks about NSA spying, transparency -- or lack of it -- is a hot topic at the moment. But there are situations where it can be even more important than just a matter of en...
European Commission Report Says Open Access At 'Tipping Point' 27 Aug 2013 | 11:11 am
Techdirt has been reporting for some time on the growing number of moves towards making academic work freely available to the public -- for example this recent major boost from the University of Calif...
Dumb Criminals College Edition: Frat Sells Drugs, Posts Pics Of Girls On Facebook 27 Aug 2013 | 08:11 am
When we typically do posts about dumb criminals intersecting with the internet, we’re strangely usually talking about adults. Sure, you get people stupidly thinking Twitter is a go-to source for findi...
DailyDirt: Near Death Experiences 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
In 1907, a physician named Duncan MacDougall tried to quantify the moment of death for 6 people -- making a wild conclusion that a human soul weighs 21 grams. Today, we have a few more advanced ways t...
Reporter Toobin Lashes Out At Reporters Who Use 'Stolen' Documents; Leaves Out His Own History Of Doing The Same 27 Aug 2013 | 03:50 am
David Carr, over at the NY Times, has a good article looking at how many of the people who have been involved in reporting on recent leaks concerning government abuses -- from Wikileaks to the Snowden...
MN Judge Refuses To Throw Out Case Against Citizen Recording Police, EMS 27 Aug 2013 | 02:49 am
Back in January, I wrote about an exceptionally odd case in Minnesota in which a private citizen had his recording device liberated from his person by police after he recorded them patting down a bloo...
Government's Redaction Fail Causes Exceptionally Grave Damage To Nation's Security 27 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
As we are all painfully aware, discussing even the most minute detail of the NSA's data harvesting programs will cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security." This is why the average citize...
Government's Redaction Fail Causes Exceptionally Grave Damage To Nation's Security 27 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
As we are all painfully aware, discussing even the most minute detail of the NSA's data harvesting programs will cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security." This is why the average citize...
1,000 Sys Admins Can Copy Any NSA Document Without Anyone Knowing About It; Think Only Snowden Did? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
Following on our earlier story about how Ed Snowden covered his tracks -- showing that the NSA's vaunted "auditability" of its systems is a complete joke -- comes the news that there are approximately...
Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Says Anti-Terror Laws Should Be Used To Stop Investigative Journalism 26 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
Plenty of people in the UK -- including some of the most powerful -- have expressed significant concerns about the decision to detain David Miranda and take all of his electronics under an "anti-terro...
