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20080507
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Security Letter - "FBI
Targets Internet Archive With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses."
... "The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the
web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act
order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the
order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning." ...
"On November 26, 2007, the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] served
a controversial National
Security Letter (.pdf) on the Internet
Archive's founder Brewster Kahle, asking for records about one of the
library's registered users, asking for the user's name, address and activity
on the site." ... "The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive's
lawyers, fought the NSL [National Security Letter], challenging its constitutionality
in a December 14 complaint
(.pdf) to a federal court in San Francisco [California]. The FBI agreed
on April 21 to withdraw the letter and unseal the court case, making some
of the documents available to the public." ... "The Patriot Act greatly
expanded the reach of NSLs, which are subpoenas for documents such as billing
records and telephone records that the FBI can issue in terrorism investigations
without a judge's approval. Nearly all NSLs come with gag orders forbidding
the recipient from ever speaking of the subpoena, except to a lawyer."
... "Brewster Kahle called the gag order "horrendous," saying he couldn't
talk about the case with his board members, wife or staff, but said that
his stand was part of a time-honored tradition of librarians protecting
the rights of their patrons." ... ""This is an unqualified success that
will help other recipients understand that you can push back on these,"
Kahle said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning." ...
"Though FBI guidelines on using NSLs warned of overusing them, two Congressionally
ordered audits revealed that the FBI had issued hundreds of illegal requests
for student health records, telephone records and credit reports. The reports
also found that the FBI had issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs since
2001, but failed to track their use. In a letter to Congress last week,
the FBI admitted it can only estimate how many NSLs it has issued." -By
Ryan Singel -Wired
20050407
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- "The Archivist:
Brewster Kahle made a copy of the Internet. Now, he wants your files."
... "I'm a few minutes late for lunch at the Internet
Archive, but they know what kept me. The view of San Francisco Bay
[California] outside the archive's digs at the Presidio
is captivating even if you already live here." ... "Search-engine wiz and
dot-com multimillionaire Brewster
Kahle founded the archive here in 1996 with a dream as big as the bridge:
He wanted to back up the Internet. There were only 50 million or so URLs
back then, so the idea only seemed half-crazy. As the Web ballooned to
more than 10 billion pages, the archive's main server farm—hidden across
town in a data
center beneath the city's other big bridge—grew to hold a half-million
gigabytes of compressed and indexed pages." ... "Kahle is less the Internet's
crazy aunt—the tycoon who can't stand to throw anything away—than its evangelical
librarian." -By Paul Boutin
-Slate
20021105
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- "Ancient
Egyptian library reborn in modern form: Organizers
hope to offer global access via Internet." ... "Some experts say the library's
long-term goal of gathering and preserving all recorded human knowledge
is next to impossible, given the expenses involved." ... ""We have, at
best, maybe 2 percent of all human knowledge in digital form, and personally
I think less," says Charley Seavey, an associate professor at the University
of Missouri-Columbia School of Information Science and Learning Technologies.
Mr. Seavey says it would take over $1 billion dollars to digitize just
the 17 million books in the Library of Congress - and that doesn't include
the 95 million other items in its collection or the cost of storing and
retrieving this material." ... ""The biggest challenge is not technology,"
[Archive.org's Brewster] Kahle says.
"It's a mind-set change – that now something is possible that wasn't possible
before.""-By Sarah Gauch
-CSMonitor
20020228
- "A
Library as Big as the World: Brewster Kahle
has the technology to assemble the ultimate archive of human knowledge.
What's stopping him? Restrictive copyright laws." ... "For example, of
the 10,027 books published in 1930, only 174 are still in print. Yet, while
Kahle would like to publish them, the 1998 law means they now won't be
available to the public until 2005." -By Heather Green
-BusinessWeek/Daily
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