IFAction News Roundup, June 8 – 14, 2014

Censorship, Challenge Reporting, Intellectual Freedom Issues, Online learning, Privacy

The Office for Intellectual Freedom sponsors IFAction, an email list for those who would like updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more. Click here to subscribe to this list. For an archive of all list postings since 1996, visit the IF Action archive. Below is a sample of articles from June 8 — June 14, 2014.

 

Filtering, Censorship, Whistle blowing, Free Press, and Free Speech Articles  

Free Speech or Illegal Threats? Justices Could Say

[Pensacola] Florida School Cancels Reading Program Over Cory Doctorow Book

Al Gore: Snowden not a traitor

Iraq tries to censor social media to disrupt ISIS communication, but its success is limited

Tech company, free speech groups to protect websites under attack 

 

Access, the Digital Divide, Net Neutrality, and Intellectual Property Protection Articles 

FCC Chief Plans Action on Wi-Fi in Schools

Removing Barriers to Competitive Community Broadband

Appeals Court Rules Digital Library Doesn’t Violate Copyright Law

How Do You Know The Public Domain Is In Trouble? It Requires A 52-Page Handbook To Determine If Something Is Public Domain

Verizon Says It Wants to Kill Net Neutrality to Help Blind, Deaf, and Disabled People

 

Privacy, Surveillance, Hacking, and Cybersecurity Articles    

Google’s New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential–For Good and Evil

Gmail Bug Could Have Exposed Every User’s Address

After Heartbleed, We’re Overreacting to Bugs That Aren’t a Big Deal

Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA

Because after all, it is not information that wants to be free, it’s us [TED Talk: Keren Elazari]

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