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Internet Archive refuses to secretly hand over user info to FBI

With the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle successfully challenged an FBI request to secretly hand over information about the site's users. The FBI had sent Kahle a "national security letter" which requested personal information about a particular user and put Kahle under a gag order. Approximately 200,000 of the secret requests, which need no judicial approval, were issued between 2003 and 2006 after the NSL program was expanded by the Patriot Act. Kahle's case is one of only three the ACLU is aware of where NSL requests were successfully overturned in court. (Photo by David Silver)

1:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Jackson West
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Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive brings broadband to SF housing projects

Mayor Gavin Newsom's office tried to garner good press by selling his efforts to bring free Wi-Fi to San Francisco as an effort to bring broadband to the poor, under the auspices of Project Tech Connect. Commercial partners Google and EarthLink just wanted to sell location-targeted ads with a franchise agreement to shut out competitors. Now Brewster Kahle's nonprofit Internet Archive has done what Newsom, Google and EarthLink couldn't. No, not hold yet another press conference. Kahle actually brought 100-megabit-per-second broadband to low-income households. More »

3:00 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Jackson West
1,506 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: Owen: Why are you banning Johndmc? Kompression posted a violent threat. His second that I have seen. The other guy said something reasonable and even quoted Truman. Why? more »

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Librarians use Google, and Google uses them

Some large libraries are rejecting Google and Microsoft's programs to scan their book repositories for Web searching. The stated reason libraries are wary is largely because both companies restrict access to the data to individual search results — a notion that most librarians say they're opposed to on principle, preferring universal access to their stored knowledge. Come on. Their true motives are an open book. More »

2:28 PM on Mon Oct 22 2007
By Tim Faulkner
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