Online Activist Who Committed Suicide Was Being Closely Monitored by FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.comĀ Aaron Swartz, an online activist who committed suicide last month, was being closely tracked by the FBI, Salon reports. Records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show agents monitored the 26-year-old’s activity on the internet and collected information on even banal online activity, Salon wrote. The probe began when the FBI…