Intersect Alert July 22, 2012
Freedom of Information Law Enforcement Agencies Demanded Cell Phone User Info Far More Than 1.3 Million Times Last Year Yesterday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) revealed that federal, state and local law...
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Open Access OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License OCLC is recommending that member institutions that would like to release their catalog data on the Web do so with the Open Data Commons...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 19, 2012
Take Action! Take Action to Support Ethiopian Blogger Eskinder Nega EFF was dismayed to learn that Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega had been sentenced to eighteen years in prison under a...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 26, 2012
Digital History Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth Here’s the problem with libraries. They catch on fire really easily. As such, they were the prized targets...
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 2, 2012
Privacy Issues The New York Times Reminds Us the NSA Still Warrantlessly Wiretaps Americans, and Congress Has the Power to Stop It Last week, the New York Times published two important op-eds...
View ArticleIntersect Alert November 5, 2012
Public Policy Court: Memphis library cards can be used at the polls The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that photo ID cards issued by the Memphis Public Library qualify as a valid form of...
View ArticleIntersect Alert December 3, 2012
Intellectual Property Issues Survival of the biggest: Concern about the clout of the internet giants is growing. But antitrust watchdogs should tread carefully The four giants of the internet...
View ArticleIntersect Alert December 9, 2012
Freedom of Information Finding Agency FOIA Regulations a Shockingly Difficult Task “Today the National Security Archive published its latest Freedom of Information Act audit to assess which agencies...
View ArticleIntersect Alert February 18, 2013
Take Action! Call to action: Tell Congress you support the Bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) Today (February 14, 2013), Senators Cornyn (R-TX) and Wyden (D-OR) and...
View ArticleIntersect Alert February 25, 2013
Freedom of Information Justices consider Va. limits on access to public records The Supreme Court’s justices suggested Wednesday that state laws limiting access to government records to their own...
View ArticleIntersect Alert July 7, 2013
Intellectual Property: Why Your Library May Not Have the E-Book You Want While most small presses sell all their books freely and happily to libraries, the "Big Five" publishers continue to be...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 5, 2013
Open Access: JSTOR Releases Documents and Summary of Its Role in Swartz Case JSTOR, the digital-journal archive, has released all the documents it provided to federal prosecutors relating to the case...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 11, 2013
Privacy Issues: House Subpoenas Personal Medical Information in Continued Assault on Clean Air Policies On Aug. 2, the House Science Committee issued a subpoena demanding the U.S. Environmental...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 27, 2013
Privacy Issues: Facebook Post by Arizona Hospital Employee Results in Identity Theft Last week, an Arizona woman filed a police report after a University of Arizona Medical Center-South Campus...
View ArticleIntersect Alert January 5, 2014
Digital History: The very first "Intersect Alert" Once I post this, some of you may come up with an older Alert, but the oldest one found (thank you, Anne Barker) is one from July 21, 2004. It was...
View ArticleIntersect Alert January 12, 2014
Privacy Issues: Insurers Using Patient Data From Health Kiosks To Target Customers Health insurers are partnering with organizations that operate health-screening kiosks to obtain data that could...
View ArticleIntersect Alert May 18, 2014
Intellectual Property: Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose It’s official: the last holdout for the open web has fallen. Flanked on all sides by Google, Microsoft, Opera, and...
View ArticleIntersect Alert June 1, 2014
Take Action!: Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere (Kickstarter campaign) Right now, 1 out of every 4 children in America will grow up illiterate. And: numerous studies reveal that...
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 7, 2014
Privacy Issues: Two Privacy Bills Move as Congress Returns From Vacation After all its hard work this year Congress is almost done with its summer recess. Lawmakers are due back Sept. 8 and have much...
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 14, 2014
Intellectual Property: Recovery.gov dumps DUNS, highlighting need for open entity IDs Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that a treasure trove of data is about to disappear from the highly lauded...
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