Highlights

• Libraries respond to Macmillan Ebook embargo with boycotts, advocacy | Library Journal

Censorship

• ABFE responds to Trump administration warning to Hachette | Bookweb; ‘A Warning’
• LGBTQ school book controversy in Loudoun County | Fox 5 DC (VA)
  • Angry parents protest LGBTQ books in Virginia classrooms | The Washington Post
• GQ, Nat Geo and Cosmo are banned in Arizona prisons. A judge said the rules need to explain why. | The Washington Post
• New York Times’ fallout affecting Citrus County tourism, officials say | WFTS Tampa Bay (FL)
• Whodunit in the Library: Someone Keeps Hiding the Anti-Trump Books | The New York Times (ID)
• Author believes Dist. 200 canceled Wheaton school visit due to LGBTQ content; officials cite procedural issue | Daily Herald (TX)

Privacy and Cybersecurity

• Can facial recognition technologies, privacy, and the freedom of expression co-exist? | Ctech
• Microsoft to employ California’s digital privacy law nationwide | Cnet
• Government must have reasonable suspicious of digital contraband before searching electronic devices at the U.S. border | ACLU; “The ruling came in a lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and ACLU of Massachusetts, on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at U.S. ports of entry.”
• Google is slurping up health data – and it looks totally legal | Wired
  • Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ gathers personal health data on millions of Americans | The Wall Street Journal
• NSA cybersecurity boss Anne Neuberger on what keeps her up at night | Wired
• FTC head asks Congress for real privacy laws he can enforce | Ars Technica

Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.

Access

• The case for internet access as a human right | Vice
• Why e-book access matters | National League of Cities
• AASL publishes OER toolkit | ALA News
• African American archives: Preserving history and increasing access | Library Journal

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• How to get more rural students ready for college? Start with broadband | The Chronicle of Higher Education
• How two districts tackle the digital equity gap | eSchool News
• The people left behind in a broadband world | The Wall Street Journal

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

• Can social media ‘targetcasting’ and democracy coexist? | Brookings
• FTC issues guidelines to social media influences for endorsement disclosures. This means you, too, educators. | School Library Journal
• Twitter wants your feedback on its proposed deepfakes policy | Ars Technica
• Local journalism in crisis: Why America must revive its local newsrooms | Brookings

First Amendment & Free Speech

• The unlikely birth of free speech | The New York Times
• Federal judge rules Georgia sheriff violated the First Amendment by posting signs in sex offenders’ yards | Freedom Forum Institute

Around the Web

• FBI releases 2018 hate crimes report | Jurist
• Wikipedia still hasn’t fixed its colossal gender gap | Fast Company
• UN report on public spaces and human rights highlights place of libraries | IFLA
• Happy Birthday Richelle Mead | OIF Blog
• How the CPS strike affected Chicago school librarians | American Libraries
• The org that doles out .org websites just sold itself to a for-profit company | The Verge
• Dispatches from the Houghton, Part Four: The last quarter | OIF News
• To repair the irreparable riven: Censored books into healing artwork | OIF Blog

International Issues

• Kashmir: Journalists march to protest 100 days of internet shutdown | News Laundry (India)
• RSF breaks the silence forced on journalists in Indian-administered Kashmir | Reporters Without Borders
• Iran bans sale of Israeli author accused of Darwinism | The New York Times
• Finding truth online is hard enough. Censors make it a labyrinth. | The New York Times (Turkey)

ALA News

• New National Library Week materials and more from ALA Graphics
• ALA unveils shortlist for 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
• Nominations open for 2020 IFRT John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award—deadline December 1
• IFRT accepting nominations for 2020 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award—deadline December 1
• Call for nominations for the Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award—deadline January 1
• Rainbow Round Table seeks nominations for outstanding service to the LGBTQIA+ community—deadline December 30

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