Intersect Alert October 25, 2014
Take Action!: Tell your lawmakers that open access is important to you: FASTR Ensures that Publicly Funded Research Belongs to the Public When taxpayers pay for research, everyone should have access...
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Privacy Issues: Making Privacy a Reality: The Safe Harbor Judgment and Its Consequences for US Surveillance Reform Earlier this month, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union...
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International Outlook Hong Kong Bookstore Disappearances Shock Publishing Industry “In a frenetic commercial district of Hong Kong, sandwiched between shops selling vitamins and clothing to tourists,...
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Intersect Alert January 3, 2016
Privacy Issues: Measuring Privacy: Using Context to Expose Confounding Variables Past privacy surveys often omit important contextual factors and yield cloudy, potentially misleading results about...
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Privacy Issues: How ‘Do Not Track’ Ended Up Going Nowhere Back in 2010, the Federal Trade Commission pledged to give Internet users the power to determine if or when websites were allowed to track...
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Reading: Remembering David Bowie through his 100 favorite books Although David Bowie was best known for his music, he also made countless contributions to the worlds of art, fashion and film. But the...
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Public Policy: Private Companies Profit from Almost Every Function of America’s Criminal Justice System (infographic) Today, private companies hold contracts that allow them to profit from all...
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Take Action!: Five minutes can net libraries $200 million next year Earlier this week, we asked for your help in defending the more than $200 million in LSTA and other federal library funding from...
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Intellectual Property: Cybersquatting Cases Up in 2015, Driven by New gTLDs Amid the roll-out of hundreds of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .GURU, .NINJA and .NYC, trademark owners...
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Freedom of Information: 22 Years Later, US Still Classifying “Bombshell” Plan to Pull Peacekeepers Out Before Rwanda Genocide The tinderbox of Rwanda’s ethnic tensions ignited in April 1994 and mass...
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