Berkman Buzz: August 23, 2013

Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) and recently appointed director of the Harvard Library’s Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC), in conjunction with the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)—headquartered in Harvard Square—has been working to provide global access to more than 17,000 volumes of Tibetan literature. Founded in 1999, the TBRC specializes in seeking rare Tibetan texts, and then digitally preserving, cataloging and disseminating the literature online.

There has been much made of the fact that [David Miranda is] the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter whom Edward Snowden trusted with many of his NSA documents and the most prolific reporter of the surveillance abuses disclosed in those documents. There's less discussion of what I feel was the real reason for Miranda's detention. He was ferrying documents between Greenwald and Laura Poitras, a filmmaker and his co-reporter on Snowden and his information. These document were on several USB memory sticks he had with him. He had already carried documents from Greenwald in Rio de Janeiro to Poitras in Berlin, and was on his way back with different documents when he was detained.

DPLA sets up shop at Boston Public Library http://bit.ly/1azk0AN
—Digital Public Library of America (@dpla)

Facebook and some tech industry allies say they want to bring the internet to the billions of humans who don't already have it, because truth, justice and the Silicon Valley way are the path to a wonderful future for all. No, they didn't say it quite that way in the launch of Internet.org – tag line: "Every one of us. Everywhere. Connected" – on Wednesday. But that's a plain subtext.

Hey @internet_org check out my legal article on the history/intellectual origins of Internet rights: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2029087
—Jon Penney (@jon_penney)

As teens gain access to mobile devices, they have embraced app downloading. But many teen apps users have taken steps to uninstall or avoid apps over concern about their privacy. Location information is considered especially sensitive to teen girls, as a majority of them have disabled location tracking features on cell phones and in apps because they are worried about others’ access to that information.

Zoleykha Mousavi is a mother without hope. She's the mother of a jailed Iranian blogger, Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, who has been on hunger strike for about two weeks. Mrs. Mousavi began her own hunger strike on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 to “make her voice heard”.

Hossein Ronaghi Malki is serving a 15-year sentence. A Facebook campaign was launched to support him.