Open access to research is still held back by misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better, says Peter Suber

via Open access: six myths to put to rest | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional.

The lack of legal options for whistleblowers after Wikileaks | Marketplace.org.

“The Fifth Estate” screenwriter Josh Singer sat down with Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson above right, with Singer at the Brattle Theatre Wednesday night before an advance screening of the much-buzzed about film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. After the screening, an array of brainy boldfacers — including Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, Yochai Benkler, and Ethan Zuckerman — were scheduled to take part in a panel discussion moderated by NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer.

via ‘The Fifth Estate’ screenwriter sits down with Charles Nesson – Names – The Boston Globe.

“Smartphones are going to start doing more of the tracking, and more people have them already and don’t have to buy separate devices,” says Sara Watson, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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Unless Congress imposes new limits on state surveillance, it’s inevitable agencies will go on abusing our liberties and privacy

via How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight | Yochai Benkler | Comment is free | theguardian.com.

Furthermore, accelerometers aren’t the only way that smartphones can be fingerprinted. For example, Sara M. Watson, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, recently wrote in a Wired opinion piece that the new M7 motion processor in the Apple 5s smartphones has been designed to continually record data from the device’s accelerometer, compass and gyroscope sensors, which could be used by so-called quantified self apps that serve as personal activity trackers. But the sensor data could easily be collected by apps — or even third parties — without the owner’s knowledge.

via Do Smartphone Sensors Present Security Risk? – Security – Mobile.

“No matter what you do there is a cost associated with this function of government, and the question is how is that function allocated,” said Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

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You may be familiar with the concept of peak oil, but Tim Hwang and Adi Kamdar both former affiliates of the Berkman Center here at Harvard are pushing the idea of peak advertising.

via Have we hit peak advertising? » Nieman Journalism Lab.

Defenders of the NSA’s bulk data collection program argue its necessity. But the evidence it makes us safer is vanishingly small

via Fact: the NSA gets negligible intel from Americans’ metadata. So end collection | Yochai Benkler | Comment is free | theguardian.com.