The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it will not bring charges under federal hacking laws against security researchers and hackers who act in good faith. The policy for the first time “
Aaron Swartz was a young, bright genius who believed in the open Internet. A self-made millionaire by the age of 19, he co-founded Reddit, was part of the creation of RSS and became a political organi
San Francisco taxi labor groups called for the eradication of car ride-sharing startups and the imprisonment of some of their members at a protest in front of City Hall yesterday. "We want to see thes
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is “partially” opposing a request by the estate of Aaron Swartz for the release of documents related to the investigation that led to Swartz
Digital activist Aaron Swartz took his own life on January 11. Swartz was facing federal hacking charges after being arrested for downloading millions of articles from JSTOR from MIT’s network in ex
<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Richard Price is founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers.</em>
Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articl
The <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz/">Aaron Swartz</a> tragedy has unleashed an intense debate about computer "crime" and the US criminal justice system. Heavyweights like <a t
The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — have some fun with Facebook's new GraphSearch and advances in medical techniques. We all agree that
After accusations of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/aaron-swartz-fix-draconian-computer-crime-law">overzealous prosecution</a> and a <a target="_blank" href="https://
The US District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed the case against Aaron Swartz. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/12/aaron-swartz/">Swartz committed suicide</a> on January 11 after an invest
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/nik-cubrilovic">Nik Cubrilovic</a> points out that people were significantly <a target="_blank" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529
After news about Internet activist Aaron Swartz's suicide on Friday started to spread across the Internet, many at least partly blamed MIT for the 26-year-old hacktivist's death. This included his own
Digital activist and early employee at Reddit, Aaron Swartz, committed suicide in New York on January 11. He was 26.
Swartz was a fiery proponent of Internet freedom and the founder of <a target="_