Intellectual Freedom News 1/24/20
Highlights
- ALA responds to National Archives effort to alter materials
- Meet IFRT’s 2020 Executive Board Candidates | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Censorship
- Interview: Ben Baker speaks about his now controversial library bill | The Rolla Daily News (MO)
- Florida GOP leader pushing bill targeting ‘social media censorship’ | Tallahassee Democrat
- The erasure of political history at the National Archives | The New Yorker
- Against those who would harm LGBTQ students in Grand Haven | Tribune (MI)
- “Relentless absurdity:” An army photographer’s censored images | The New Yorker
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- YouTube moves to COPPA compliance | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Facebook, Twitter hold evidence that could save people from prison. And they’re not giving it up | San Frncisco Chronicle
- Columbus Library data breach may have been caused by phishing link | Columbus Dispatch (OH)
- So far, under California’s new privacy law, firms are disclosing too little data—or far too much | Washington Post
- The secret history of facial recognition | Wired
- Microsoft looms over the privacy debate in its home state | Wired
- Google Users Battle Company Over Alleged ‘Assistant’ Privacy Violations | Digital News Daily
- Supreme Court declines to hear Facebook facial recognition case | The Hill
- Barr’s Encryption Push Is Decades in the Making, but Troubles Some at FBI | Wall Street Journal
- The next big privacy scare is a face recognition tool you’ve never heard of | TNW
- Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections | Ars Technica
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
Access
- 12-and-over library policy raises concerns in Old Saybrook | CT Examiner
- You matter! Make sure you count! | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Libraries are preparing for the 2020 Census. With plenty at stake, there’s still work to be done | School Library Journal
Net Neutrality & Broadband
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
Hate Speech & Libraries
- Anti-semitic graffiti found in Bird Library | The Daily Orange
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Supreme Court considers religious schools case | NPR
- Court upholds district’s limits on parent’s communications with School staff | Education Week
- Ninth Circuit Rules on Court Processes and Media Right to Access | Constitutional Law Prof Blog
- Don’t get stuck on prayers in public schools | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- Disinformation and the sex ed wars | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- Getting to the truth in a post-truth society: An interview with Lee McIntyre, author of Post-Truth | Intelletual Freedom Blog
- We Need Diverse Books Names 2020 Walter Dean Myers Award Winners | School Library Journal
- Librarian Uses “Little Women” Star Power To Connect Students to the Library | School Library Journal
- News Literacy Project and Scripps Launch National News Literacy Week | School Library Journal
- Reese Witherspoon seeks book club librarian-in-residence | School Library Journal
- Agathe by Robert Musil, review: banned by the Nazis, this existential masterpiece is a shock to the system | The Telegraph
- Lifelines: Banned books and the dangers of peaceful protest | Traverse City Record Eagle (MI)
- Unhinged Way to Make Books ‘More Portable’ Has Sliced the Internet in Half | Time
- 2020 Midwinter Galley Roundup |
- Famed sculptor stood up for civil rights | Freedom Forum Institute
International Issues
- Tavistock Centre accused of silencing debate after book removed from library | The Telegraph (UK)
- Essex campaigners complain of ‘cull’ as library book stock falls by 500k | Maldon Standard
- Cries of censorship in Sudan as media outlets linked to old regime closed | Middle East Eye
- Sex Education is OK but must be ‘culturally sensitive’ | Economy Next (Sri Lanka)
- Werribee library drag storytime protest in Melbourne | QN
- Banned poetry and the Kurdish question | Jerusalem Post
- University of Minnesota student jailed in China over tweets | Axios
- Brazil prosecutes Glenn Greenwald in “attack on press freedom” | Ars Technica
ALA News
- ALA releases updated Libraries’ Guide to the 2020 Census
- United for Libraries offers first-ever chance to livestream Institute during Midwinter Meeting; registration open
- Philadelphia leaders and innovators share insights at 2020 Symposium on the Future of Libraries
- John E. Ulmschneider named 2020 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year
- Ready to Code Opens Call for Applications: Mini-Grants for Digital Skills Programs
- Free webinar to help libraries anticipate patron questions about 2020 Census; January 30
- Feb. 1 deadline for ALA/Information Today, Inc. Library of the Future Award
- Games and Gaming Round Table announces Game On! Grants; deadline March 1
- Application open for 2020 ALA Leadership Institute; deadline March 9
- ALA seeks proposals for 2020 Diversity Research Grants; due April 15
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