IFAction Round-Up, March 11-17, 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 March 11 —March 17, 2013.
Privacy, Surveillance, and Cybersecurity
Harvard Search of E-Mail Stuns Its Faculty Members
Rolling Stone: Police Spying on American Muslims Is a Pointless National Shame
U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances
Reuters Employee Charged With Helping Anonymous Hack News Site
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them
Censorship and Free Speech
Rhode Island ACLU Report Finds Prevalent Internet Censorship in Public Schools
Illinois county to pay ACLU $600K after high court voids eavesdropping law
Chicago School District Under Fire for Restricting Access to ‘Persepolis’
Access and Intellectual Property Protection
Obama gets mixed marks for record on secrecy
Bradley Manning Speaks: In Leaked Court Recording, Army Whistleblower Tells His Story for First Time
RIP: Google Reader Meets Its Inevitable End
Gov’t won’t even give page counts of secret PATRIOT Act documents
What Librarians Need to Know about the New Copyright Alert System
Aaron Swartz to Be Honored by [American] Library Association
Wisconsin man banned from all libraries on earth [Racine]
Other
Steubenville Rape Guilty Verdict: The Case that Social Media Won