Intersect Alert January 11, 2015
International Outlook: Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo? Subscribe! What can anyone do in response to the horrific murders of twelve persons associated with the French weekly Charlie Hebdo? One way of...
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Publishing: Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopaedia Britannica For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an...
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California Government Technology California Will Start Scoring Information Technology Contractors Lawmakers questioned Department of Technology Director Ramos and Consumer Affairs Director Awet Kidane...
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Freedom of Information: Journalists Fight for Open Government in The Face Of Secrecy Transparency is inconvenient. It’s inconvenient for the reporter who’s trying to report the news and it’s...
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Privacy: Privacy advocates seek more openness on NSA surveillance As Congress considers whether to extend the life of a program that sweeps up American phone records, privacy advocates and civil...
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Intellectual Property: Library Associations Spearhead New Copyright Coalition A group of technology companies, trade associations, and civil society organizations have joined forces to form Re:Create,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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International Outlook: Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo? Subscribe! What can anyone do in response to the horrific murders of twelve persons associated with the French weekly Charlie Hebdo? One way of...
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Publishing: Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopaedia Britannica For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an...
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Intellectual Property: Second Circuit Affirms Fair Use in Google Books Case On October 16, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously affirmed the lower court’s fair use in...
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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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