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22 October 2017
UK and US Citizens: Please Request Your Personal Data Held By Cambridge Analytica
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By now, many people have probably heard about the company Cambridge Analytica . By its own admission, it played a major role in the succes...
02 February 2014
Interview: Eben Moglen - "surveillance becomes the hidden service wrapped inside everything"
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(This was original published in The H Open in March 2010.) Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web c...
19 September 2013
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter And Yahoo Refuse To Cooperate With UK's 'Snooper's Charter'
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A month ago, we wrote about how the UK's infamous " Snooper's Charter " had been scuppered by Nick Clegg, the UK's ...
17 May 2013
Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight *Against* the Blind?
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One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a glo...
29 September 2012
UK Prosecutors Finally Acknowledge The Need For A Real Discussion About Free Speech Online
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As Tim Cushing rightly noted earlier this week, the UK's "Free Speech" laws are more about the many things you can't say...
10 August 2012
Europe Already Has Draft Standard For Real-Time Government Snooping On Services Like Facebook And Gmail
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As the old joke goes, standards are wonderful things, that's why we have so many of them. But who would have thought that ETSI, the ...
10 June 2012
'Hack The Real World And Share The Results'
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Eben Moglen has been battling to defend key digital rights for the last two decades. A lawyer by training, he helped Phil Zimmerman fig...
27 April 2012
The Serious Business of Open Source, Inc.
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One of open source's great strengths is that it is not a company. This means that traditional methods of nullifying its threat – such ...
11 April 2012
Another Billion-Dollar Open Source Company: Instagram
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Earlier this week I wrote about the first company based on open source to reach a turnover of one billion dollars. But of course, there...
If Piracy Is So Devastating, Why Are We Seeing An Unprecedented Outpouring Of Creativity?
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One of the favorite tropes of the anti-piracy crowd is that all this unauthorized sharing is killing culture, pauperizing artists and gen...
13 January 2012
Indian Judge Tells Google And Facebook To 'Check And Remove Objectionable Material' Or Be Blocked
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A few weeks back, Techdirt reported on an Indian minister asking Internet companies to do the impossible: On Techdirt .
12 October 2011
Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'
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A few weeks back, Techdirt posted a story about a European campaign group called "Europe vs. Facebook" , which is trying to find...
What Happens When The Company Backing Up Your Passwords In The Event of Your Death Itself Dies?
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The unprecedented public outpouring of grief in the technical community at the death of Steve Jobs seems to go well beyond the fact that ...
12 April 2011
Why Openness is Inevitable
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As Richard Stallman constantly reminds us, there are strong moral grounds for adopting free software. But whether or not you accept that lin...
13 December 2010
Netflix Opens up About Open Source
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Even though it is generally accepted that open source is used widely throughout the business world, it doesn't hurt having a few high-pr...
16 November 2010
Will Mark Zuckerberg Prove He's Open Source's BFF?
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Although I don't use it much myself, I've heard that Facebook is quite popular in some quarters. This makes its technological moves ...
11 November 2010
A (Digital) Hymn to Eric Whitacre
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Eric Whitacre is that remarkable thing: a composer able to write classical music that is at once completely contemporary and totally approac...
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06 July 2010
Open Source: It's all LinkedIn
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As I noted in my post “Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?", one of the reasons there are no large pure-play open source compa...
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17 May 2010
Diaspora: The Future of Free Software Funding?
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Diaspora, a free software project to create a distributed version of Facebook that gives control back to...
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04 February 2010
The New Face of Open Source: Facebook
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Without doubt, one of the most extraordinary developments in recent years has been the rise of Facebook - not just as the most popular socia...
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