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The #AdaLovelaceInstitute's giant "Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power" report is a *banger* on this subject, covering interoperability, privacy, equity, information security and more, with superb contributions from @1br0wn and #JathanSadowski:

https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/rethinking-data/

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Rethinking data and rebalancing digital power

What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?

^{www.adalovelaceinstitute.org}

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The privacy debate changed forever a decade ago, when #EdwardSnowden handed a group of journalists a trove of #NSA documents detailing a massive, lawless global surveillance campaign. The tenth snowdenversary has prompted a lot of commentary. I really liked #AlanRusbridger's retrospective:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/edward-snowden-state-spying-guardian-alan-rusbridger

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Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

The abuses the Guardian helped him bring to worldwide attention go on: the authorities have merely made it harder to expose them

^{Alan Rusbridger (The Guardian)}

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They could have fired him, but they were not permitted to override his editorial judgments.

Another good Snowden take comes from #EwenMacAskill, the former *Guardian* defense and security correspondent, who was one of the original Snowden reporters:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/edward-snowden-nsa-mass-surveillance/674315/

MacAskill tells us that neither he nor Snowden have any regrets about their decision.

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Did Edward Snowden’s Revelations Change Anything?

The leak in 2013 of NSA documents detailing mass surveillance of electronic communications seemed to have seismic significance. Today, the legacy looks less clear.

^{Ewen MacAskill (The Atlantic)}

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Unfortunately, the media - and its friends in government - have decided that the real problem is that tech is stealing "content," not money, leading to proposals to restrict who can link to, quote and discuss the news. For the past month, I've been working with @eff on a series describing how tech steals money (not content) from the news, and what to do about it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

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Saving the News From Big Tech

Media is in crisis: newsrooms all over the world are shuttering and the very profession of journalism is under sustained ideological and physical assault.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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Every press outlet has its blind spots and biases, and press competition can really sharpen a media outlet. For example, editors from across the chummy UK press spiked stories detailing the sexual predation of a veteran reporter, #NickCohen. It took the *NYTimes* to break the story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/world/europe/financial-times-nick-cohen-guardian.html

Perhaps the *#NewYorkPost* will keep the *Times* honest, but what about other American cities where news coverage has dwindled to one or fewer outlets.

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Why Did The Financial Times Kill a #MeToo Scoop on the Observer Columnist Nick Cohen?

Seven women say that a star columnist groped them or made unwanted sexual advances. But Britain’s news media has a complicated relationship with outing its own.

^{Jane Bradley (The New York Times)}

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The *Banner* got its seed capital from #StewartBainum, a former Maryland assemblyman and hereditary rich guy, who nevertheless has embraced a relatively progressive set of causes throughout his political and business careers. Bainum tried to buy the *Sun*, but lost out to Alden, so he started his own (nonprofit) rival:

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/baltimore-banner-will-rival-the-sun-can-it-prove-sustainable/

While the *Sun* is slashing its newsroom (down to 70 from a peak of 400), Bainum has committed $50m to hire journalists.

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The Well-Funded ‘Baltimore Banner’ Will Rival ‘The Sun.’ Can it Prove Sustainable?

New online-only Baltimore newspaper is set to launch in early summer.

^{Baltimore Magazine}

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Reporters (and other "awe-struck" workers) are at a breaking point. The latest newsroom to strike is *#BusinessInsider*, and #InsiderUnion is publishing a delightful countersite called (what else?), *Business Outsider*:

https://www.insiderunion.org/business-outsider

When those workers bring their bosses to their knees, win their demands, and go back to reporting, they'll have a great new tool: the #DoJ has finally launched its long overdue #CorporateCrimeDatabase:

https://www.justice.gov/corporate-crime/corporate-crime-case-database

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Business Outsider — Insider Union

Business Outsider is an Insider Union strike publication that tells the stories you want to know — and the ones that Insider management doesn't want you to hear.

^{Insider Union}

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Activists and journalists have been clamoring for this for more than a decade, led by #RalphNader. *#CorporateCrimeReporter* describes the database: "all of the cases in its system from Main Justice and all 93 U.S. Attorneys offices":

https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/justice-department-launches-corporate-crime-database/

The DoJ didn't do this voluntarily: they were spurred to do it by legislation proposed in 2022, the "Corporate Crime Database Act":

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/dem/releases/durbin-blumenthal-scanlon-introduce-corporate-crime-database-act

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After Years of Citizen Pressure, Justice Department Launches Corporate Crime Database - Corporate Crime Reporter

After years of citizen pressure to create a public corporate crime database, the Justice Department this week surprisingly and without public notice did just that.

^{Editor (Corporate Crime Reporter)}

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The database doesn't have an RSS feed or other "advanced" features from the previous decade, but all works of federal authorship are public domain, so someone could hack up a scraper that turns new entries into an easy-to-follow feed.

On the subject of innovative databases: #Shepherd is a book recommendation site that's attempting to provide an independent alternative to the hegemonic dominance of #Amazon's #Goodreads:

https://shepherd.com/

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Shepherd - Browse the best books to read.

Shepherd feels like you are browsing the best bookstore in the world. Passionate experts recommend the best books to read on every topic imaginable.

^Shepherd

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It aggregates *writers*' recommendations - "8,000+ authors have shared five of their favorite books around a topic, theme, or mood."

These break down well on topics; there's a great #ScienceFiction section:

https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/science-fiction

If you're interested in sf writers and their thoughts, you could do worse than to follow #AppliedSciFi from #ASU's #CenterForScienceAndTheImagination.

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The best science fiction books (picked by 8,000+ authors)

Our community of authors share their favorite books about science fiction. Are you ready to explore books in a new way?

^Shepherd

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These are seminars in which sf writers and practitioners talk about the way that sf can contest, inform and inspire discussions of current events:

https://csi.asu.edu/calendar/events/the-sci-fi-feedback-loop-mapping-fictions-influence-on-real-world-tech/

The next event (a free webinar) is "What is the future of [X]?," on Jun 14 at 9hPT: "what can broaden society’s thinking and impact decision-making about our shared technological future?"

https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k93NdFF6S5m0jFXNyMn9Ww#/registration

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The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction's Influence on Real-World Tech - Center for Science and the Imagination

May 12, 2022

^{ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination}

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Actually - just one more thing. Have you ever wanted to preserve your short, tweet-length thoughts in an awkward archival medium? Me too! Thankfully, there's #DumbCuneiform, who will transliterate your tweet into cuneiform and hand-punch it into a palm-sized clay tablet, bake it, and mail it to you, all for $20:

https://dumbcuneiform.com/

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Dumb Cuneiform

We'll take your short messages and make them permanent clay tablets.

^{dumbcuneiform.com}