IF Action Round Up August 27-September 16, 2012
OIF sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. To subscribe to this list, visit http://lists.ala.org/wws/subscribe/ifaction. For an archive of all list postings since 1996, visit http://lists.ala.org/wws/arc/ifaction. Below is a sample of articles from August 27—September 16, 2012.
Privacy
Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
Privacy worries surround UN Internet regulations
Warrantless Wiretap Victims Ask Court to Reconsider Letting Feds Spy Illegally
EFF Lawsuit Seeks Details of NSA Email, Phone Surveillance
Lawsuit challenges Mo. law on cellphone tracking
You Can Write, But You Can’t Hide: Big Data Knows Your Writing Quirks
Windows 8 privacy complaint misses the forest for the trees
Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s All About the Benjamins
Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping, judge says
ACLU Sues Police for Seizing Man’s Phone After Recording Alleged Misconduct
Why Your Cellphone Could Be Called A ‘Tracker’
What Will Happen If the Feds Get Warrantless Access to Phone Location Data
TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attacks government’s ‘snooper’s charter’
Apple denies giving device IDs to FBI
Mobile users avoid, uninstall apps over privacy concerns: Pew Report
Related: Smartphone apps track users even when shut down
What Do We Mean When We Talk About Privacy?
Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules
Big Data: Which Websites Respect Your Privacy Rights the Least?
Twitter Ordered to Release OWS Protester’s Data or Be Fined for Contempt
Related: Twitter Reluctantly Coughs Up Occupy Protester’s Data
Indecent Exposure [review of the book] ‘Privacy,’ by Garret Keizer
FTC finalizes Myspace privacy settlement
Privacy hawks fret as FBI upgrades biometrics capacities
Cops might finally need a warrant to read your Gmail
The Internet Is the New Town Hall and Soon Cities Will Be Listening
US Judge rules school violated First Amendment by demanding Facebook password from 12-year-old girl
House Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers
When the Privacy Button Is Already Pressed
Access
Library system continues filtering discussion (Timberland, WA)
Obama to ‘fight hard’ for Internet freedom
GOP Platform Calls For ‘Internet Freedom,’ Opposes Net Neutrality
Promoting Global Internet Freedom: Policy and Technology
Dems Part Company With Republicans on Net Neutrality, Online Privacy
Nashua Library lifts age restriction on borrowing R-rated movies
Speech & Censorship
Hardin Valley Academy parent wants “Robopocalypse” taken off reading list
Republican Party Platform Advocates More TV Obscenity Prosecutions
Rightwing Evangelical Gets Play Banned in Wisconsin State Park
Twitter’s Free Speech Defender
Walker’s New Capitol Police Chief Cracks Down on the First Amendment
Group Against Overland Park Statue Believes It Promotes Sexting
Graphic Novel Removed from Connecticut School District’s Summer Reading List
Utah school district revises drama policy after backlash
Fifty Shades of Grey Book Burnings Stoke Controversy
Stolz Moves to Ban ‘Porn’ From Emmaus Summer Reading
Humanist couple win right to challenge Canadian schools’ atheist book ban
Should Google be censoring videos just because they are linked to violence?
On Web, a Fine Line on Free Speech Across the Globe