Rachel Cobcroft

Free Culture Advocate, Open Data Enthusiast, Reader of Fine Print
#privacy #surveillance #ethics #creativecommons #digitalrights she/her

[Adam Liaw @adamliaw]

When I’m Prime Minister I want journalists to ask me what 10kg of rice costs.

[Creative Commons @creativecommons]

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨

In this episode of CC's Open Culture VOICES, we hear from @MedhaviGandhi, founder of @theheritagelab, a digital media platform based in India 🇮🇳 connecting citizens to cultural heritage through engaging campaigns, content & resources. https://t.co/5u6MPpMgCw

[Wiki Workshop 2025 @wikiworkshop]

📢We are beyond excited to announce our keynote speaker at #WikiWorkshop2022: Lawrence @lessig!

More info here: https://t.co/Llw0rxmOpf

[The Restart Project @RestartProject]

“We find that 3 years of security & OS updates still provides users with a great experience for their device."

Really, Google?

[@[email protected] @aurynn]

Read clause 42.10

and

proceed to “WTF” with me

https://t.co/7eaibm2vtk

[jonny saunders @json_dirs]

More fun publisher surveillance:
Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Loving this taxonomy of common types of notice-and-takedown abusers in YouTube's new Copyright Transparency Report.
https://t.co/Gt1GCASbhI

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

The fight to free PACER has stretched on for more than a decade, in the courts and in the legislature. Victory may finally be on the horizon in 2022: https://t.co/jTClAWMIu0

[itgrrl @itgrrl]

Whether you consider today #AustraliaDay or #InvasionDay, it’s a great day to think about how you can support Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people.

If you have some $$ spare, here are some groups that would benefit from whatever you can give 🧵👇

[Dr. Wesley McGrew @McGrewSecurity]

In one headline, CNN erases decades of whatever little progress we have made on user education

[Dr Alina Utrata @AlinaUtrata]

I downloaded all the data Amazon has on me, and honestly the creepiest thing about it is that they sent me the *actual audio files* of every time I spoke* to Amazon Alexa

*years ago when I was young and foolish about surveillance

[Clive Thompson @pomeranian99]

I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries.

So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that

You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it -- and presents it for instant reading

Behold the "Weird Old Book Finder": https://t.co/Yd23Lv7rk3

[Europeana @Europeanaeu]

Visit our new exhibition and learn about the 19th-century women ornithologists working outside the academic institutions, creating alternative research methods and bringing attention to environmental awareness
➡️https://t.co/YiP8gng3Vx
#WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomenScientists

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

After polling journalists on what their favorite transcription services are, we decided to read their privacy policies. Here’s what @mshelton and @yaelwrites found: https://t.co/wCXTIVt0QZ

[neural net guesses memes @ResNeXtGuesser]

Image prediction: mashed potato
Confidence: 31.77%

[Wikimedia Foundation @Wikimedia]

#1Lib1Ref aims for every librarian to add one reference to @Wikipedia, but you don't have to be a librarian to participate.

Want to be part of a global free knowledge movement? Now is your chance! More info 👉 https://t.co/XdVwnPxCge

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

A penguin of Penguins. For #PenguinAwarenessDay 🐧

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

2/ Download, remix, reuse these 38,500 recordings from our 78 rpm collection: https://t.co/JmFmmW4bH8

[Walled Culture @walledculture]

With its booming revenues, #Spotify is all set to monopolise audio #streaming 🎧 – but what does this mean for the public? @glynmoody explains the pitfalls of media #monopolies on the #WalledCulture blog 👉 https://t.co/8TGr3wGu7G #music #AccessToCulture