Intellectual Freedom News 12/14/2018
December 14, 2018 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Intellectual Freedom Highlights
- Call for nominations for the Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award
- OIF Seeks Censorship Information from 2018
- Twitter Chat with OIF on Monday, December 17 | OIF Blog
Censorship
- How the state, prisons, and guards keep books from incarcerated people | Teen Vogue
- Pending anti-LGBT lawsuit, Lafayette Library will “stand down” on Drag Queen Story Hour | KATC (LA)
- Story hour causes controversy | Herald-Citizen (TN)
- Middle schoolers react to censorship (A story told in GIFs) | OIF Blog
- Florida’s textbooks woes gaining momentum | CBLDF
Privacy
- ‘Faces of the 7 Train’ exhibit abruptly canceled by Queens Library over privacy concerns, artist cries foul | Flushing Post
- Facial recognition has to be regulated to protect the public, says AI report | MIT Technology Review
- The Safe Face Pledge “The Safe Face Pledge is an opportunity for organizations to make public commitments towards mitigating the abuse of facial analysis technology.”
- Your apps know where you were last night, and they’re not keeping it secret | The New York Times
- Big tech has your kid’s data – and you probably gave it to them | Vox
- In America’s Panopticon | The Nation
- After Marriott Breach, How to Protect Your Information Online | The New York Times
- Google Glass wasn’t a failure. It raised crucial concerns | Wired
- A news Google+ blunder exposed data from 52.5 million users | Wired
- Google’s Pichai faces privacy and bias questions in Congress | The New York Times
- Who’s Tracking Your License Plate? | City Lab “Automated license plate readers are collecting and sharing tons of data across state lines, according to records from nearly 200 police departments nationwide.”
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Digital divide among school-age children narrows, but millions still lack internet connections | National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- Last gasp: Net neutrality activists scramble for votes Congress | CNet
- House Democrats with cable-company money won’t join a call to save the internet | GQ
- The FCC has made the same mistake for text message that it did for net neutrality | EFF
- The FBI is not looking into those bogus net neutrality comments | TechDirt
Access
- USAHEC to digitize military history collection | The Sentinel
- New Jersey parents upset at reduced access to books | OIF Blog
- On information privilege and information equity | School Library Journal
Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News
- Hundreds of jailed journalists the new norm, CPJ Census finds | CPJ
- Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source | Pew Research FactTank
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Suspended Arkansas high school paper shares censorship concern | Texarkana Gazette
- Group gives two Georgia universities low marks for campus speech rules | AJC
First Amendment and Free Speech
- ACLU settles suit over governor’s censored Facebook page | Associated Press
- The sneaky fight to give cable lines free speech rights | Wired
- Time to stand up for journalists, for the pursuit of truth | Freedom Forum Institute
Hate Crimes and Hate Speech
- Unconstitutional “Hate Speech” prosecution in New York | Volokh Conspiracy “SUNY Purchase College student Gunnar Hassard was arraigned in Harrison Town Court for Aggravated Harassment in the First Degree, a class E felony, for hanging posters with Nazi symbolism in areas of the campus.”
Around the Web
- NOAA expands public access to big data | National Centers for Environmental Information
- Who’s living in a ‘bubble’? | The New York Times
- Happy birthday, Gustave Flaubert! | OIF Blog
- A review of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” cont… | OIF Blog
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ ‘Article 19’ at Seventy | OIF Blog
- Senate postpones vote on independently nominated copyright head | Library Journal
International Issues
- Australia anti-encryption law rushed to passage | Houston Chronicle
- Australian newspaper complains of censorship after gag order prevents coverage of Catholic sex scandal | The Hill
- Google CEO says no plan to ‘launch’ censored search engine in China | Motherboard
- Should controversial books be used in Canadian classrooms? | CTV News
- How Egypt crowdsources censorship | The New York Times
- How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India | Wired
- The co-opting of French unrest to spread disinformation | Wired
- In fear of the state: Bangladeshi journalists self-censor as election approaches | Reuters
ALA News
- Don’t miss the new LITA webinar – Accessibility for All: Screen Readers (Tuesday December 18, 2018, 1:00 – 2:30 pm Central Time)
- Information rights for records managers (new resource)
- 2019 Loleta D. Fyan Grant now accepting proposals (due January 11)
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