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Information Today February 22, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Announces $2 Million Grant From Google This is the Wikimedia Foundation's first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Karen Valby |
Whatever Happened to Jimmy Wales? The Wikipedia founder spends his days on the road, spreading the gospel of the openly editable encyclopedia -- sometimes charging top dollar. |
InternetNews September 18, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
EFF Sues Feds to Stop Domestic Spying With suit against AT&T stalled, watchdog group opens up a new front in legal challenge to government's warrantless surveillance program. |
Information Today May 13, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, announced a new project designed to improve the quality of public policy-related articles on Wikipedia. |
InternetNews May 16, 2006 Roy Mark |
BellSouth Denies NSA Involvement Telecom giant BellSouth claims it hasn't turned over phone records in wake of more lawsuits. |
Fast Company John Paul Titlow |
Think Wikipedia Is Sexist? They Want To Pay You To Help Change That A United Nations University study from 2010 found that only 13% of Wikipedia's editors are female, while other surveys have yielded an even lower number. |
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
AT&T Draws Ire Over Privacy Update Privacy policy clarifications come as AT&T heads back into court. |
InternetNews April 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
EFF Charges AT&T Assisted NSA in Surveillance Plan Civil liberties watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation wants public disclosure of documents that allegedly implicate the phone giant's surveillance involvement. |
InternetNews August 6, 2007 Roy Mark |
Bush Signs Temporary Wiretap Law A new law allows government to conduct surveillance of foreign e-mails and phone calls without a warrant. |
InternetNews October 17, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Watchdog Group Takes On Telecom Immunity Law EFF fighting to overturn controversial provision of FISA Amendment Act on constitutional grounds. Follows revelations of eavesdropping excesses. |
Information Today July 16, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
PRISM and the First Amendment: A Critical Issue Once Edward Snowden lands in some friendly country or decides to return to the U.S., we can hope that attention is again focused on PRISM and surveillance. So far, the responses from government officials have been less than stellar. |
Information Today July 14, 2015 George H. Pike |
USA FREEDOM Act: Protector of Civil Liberties or Window Dressing? For the first time since the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Congress has scaled back the scope of its provisions. |
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Sutherland & Patrizio |
AT&T Says Privacy Group Suing the Wrong Party Telecom giant AT&T told a district judge in San Francisco today that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the wrong party. |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2012 Anders Bylund |
10 Things I Think About the Wikipedia Blackout Wikipedia fights fire with fire. |
InternetNews February 1, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
EFF Sues AT&T Over NSA Wiretaps The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Tuesday, charging the carrier violated the law by assisting in the National Security Agency's controversial wiretap program. |
InternetNews December 7, 2005 Erin Joyce |
Wikipedia And The Truth Troops The community-driven, Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia, needs to do more than check anonymous editors at the site's door. |
Salon.com September 14, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Send in the online spooks? In the aftermath of terrorism, civil libertarians are running for cover. But are they protesting too much? |
Fast Company Jul/Aug 2012 Christina Chaey |
4 Ways The New Wikidata Will Improve Wikipedia The Wikimedia Foundation completes its first phase of development for Wikidata in August. The database will help streamline Wikipedia content by focusing on facts and figures, cutting out subjectivity, and increasing transparency. |
Reason June 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Wikipedia and Beyond Wikipedia was born as an experiment in aggregating information. But the reason it works isn't that the world was clamoring for a new kind of encyclopedia. It took off because of the robust, self-policing community it created. Despite its critics, it is transforming our everyday lives. |
PC World February 10, 2003 Kyle Stock |
Feds Look to Expand Electronic Surveillance Confidential proposal calls for increased monitoring of private e-mail messages, Web surfing, and other online activities. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 William Sweet |
Security Expert Slams Bush's Surveillance Program In this interview, the author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, James Bamford discusses why the U.S. president chose to dodge court review procedures in ordering post 9/11 wiretapping. |
Reason December 2001 |
Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war... |
Information Today December 18, 2008 Marydee Ojala |
Censorship and Wikipedia--An Instructive Tale What if, one fine morning, you went to your favorite Wikipedia page only to see a "404 page not found" error message? |
Fast Company April 1, 2011 Karen Valby |
Wikipedia's Librarian to the World Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site's broken business into a growing hub with global ambitions. Can a fast-talking iconoclast out-think silicon valley's gurus? |
InternetNews November 7, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
Appeals Court Will Hear EFF/AT&T Spying Case Both sides are still arguing over whether they even have a case. |
Information Today December 17, 2007 |
Wikis Go Printable The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain high quality print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2008 Tim Beyers |
A Rebel Begs for a Bailout Wikipedia's founder begs for donations to keep the encyclopedic Web site advertisement-free. |
Entrepreneur June 2007 Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
Searcher March 2006 Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
Wikipedia Calls Security The online encyclopedia steps takes greater precautions following a recent controversy. Judging by some Internet trends, that step can't come too soon. |
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 Heather Eng |
Inside the Ring of Steel A behind-the-scenes look at New York City's planned web of surveillance. |
InternetNews January 7, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Wikia Search Launches With Google in Its Sights Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes Wikia's new community-powered search engine will shuffle the leader board. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Mark Anderson |
Wikipedia's Shakespeare Problem Wikipedia is a little too sure we know who authored Hamlet |
Fast Company March 15, 2007 Alan Deutschman |
Why Is This Man Smiling? Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, slayer of Britannica, has a new giant in his sights: Google. And he thinks he has got a better way to search. Is he delusional -- or inspired? |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Rival Whacks at Wikipedia Can Citizendium take Wikipedia down a few notches just when the Wiki universe looks to expand? |
BusinessWeek January 6, 2011 Drake Bennett |
Assessing Wikipedia, Wiki-Style, on Its 10th Anniversary How the online "temple of the mind" became the go-to site for looking stuff up: A drama told in the open-source style of Wikipedia. |