IFAction Round-Up, January 1-13, 2013
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 January 1-January 13, 2013.
Privacy
Six states outlaw employer snooping on Facebook
Editorial: Next privacy issue for Florida? Police drones
Bush-Era Wiretapping Case Killed Before Reaching Supreme Court
Blowback From Publication Of Gun Owner Data Continues — Threats, Lawsuits And Rejected FOIA Requests
Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility?
Obama OKs Netflix-to-Facebook Sharing as E-Mail Privacy Reform Falters
Censorship and Free Speech
Connecticut Town Will Collect, Destroy Violent Games [Southington]
Related: CT Town Schedules, then Cancels Good Ole Fashioned Video Game Burning
Google concedes defeat in China censorship battle
Pentagon bans Towleroad, AMERICAblog sites for being “LGBT.” Coulter, Limbaugh ok
… much more below the break!
The Age of Surgical Censorship [Iran]
Survey Says: Parents Concerned About Media Violence
Top video game publishers meet with Biden on gun violence
Anonymous seeks to make DDoS attacks a legal form of protest
Access vs. Intellectual Property Protection and Government Secrecy
Senate confirms FTC, FCC picks
A Texas Public Library Turning FEMA Emergency Shelter Grant Into Science Education Center
Record 5-Year Prison Term Handed to Convicted File Sharer
How To Combat Book Piracy This Year
Library of Congress has archive of tweets, but no plan for its public display
Republican staffer fired for copyright memo talks to Ars
Computer Scientists Measure How Much of the Web is Archived
Pirated Buildings In China And The Rise Of Architectural Mashups
Rise of the next digital divide: Women and the web
Lionsgate Censors Remix Video That The Copyright Office Itself Used As An Example Of Fair Use
Government’s great digital divide [India]
Newtown library flooded with grief books after school shooting
Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide
San Antonio’s Launching the First Completely Bookless Public Library
Cybersecurity
The Internet of Things Has Arrived – And So Have Massive Security Issues