Highlights

• Share your censorship story | Intellectual Freedom Blog
• Bah humbug: A list of censored Christmas stories | Intellectual Freedom Blog

Censorship

• You can’t read that: Which books are banned from Pennsylvania’s state prisons? | York Daily Record
• Report: Harrisburg School District ‘disregarded policies’ in denying access to book about transgender child | Register Guard; ‘George’

Privacy and Cybersecurity

• How Elf on the Shelf Became a Surveillance State Apparatus | Vice
• Texas school smart tags students to boost location information | Center for Digital Information
• Colleges are Turning Students’ Phones into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands | The Washington Post
• AI has a privacy problem, but these techniques could fix it | Venture Beat
• Opinion: Be paranoid about privacy | The New York Times
• How your phone betrays democracy | The New York Times

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

Access

• The Dream Bus crosses some barriers of access to Madison libraries, but not all for the Latinx community | Madison Commons (WI)
• Trump could mandate free access to federally funded research papers |Ars Technica

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• The Year We Fought to Get Net Neutrality Back: 2019 Year in Review | EFF
• Bridging the broadband availability gap | Broadband Communities Magazine

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

• More than 1 in 5 U.S. papers has closed. This is the result. | The New York Times

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• Censorship by theft | Virginia Lawyers Weekly
• Was it wrong for a professor to show a student video parodying a Hitler film – or for UMass to remove her for it? | The Chronicle of Higher Education

First Amendment & Free Speech

• ‘Watchman for truth:’ Why this Supreme Court Justice’s warning from 1945 is still relevant today | CNN Business
• The ‘bedrock principle’ of the First Amendment | Freedom Forum Institute
• Court of Appeals strikes down Minnesota’s revenge porn law on First Amendment Grounds | Associated Press

Around the Web

• Facebook removes accounts with AI-generated profile photos | Wired
• The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came. | Vox

International Issues

• Wikipedia wins its battle against censorship in Turkey | Engadget
• First library in Victoria to open 24 hours a day, seven days a week has town buzzing | ABC News (Australia)
• French, Australian academics jailed in Iran on hunger strike | The Washington Post
• Russia claims it has successfully tested its own internet | Engadget
• China blocks American books as trade war simmers | The New York Times
• China’s new internet-censorship rules highlight role of algorithms | The Wall Street Journal

ALA News

• ALA announces slate of Executive Board candidates
• Application open for 2020 ALA Leadership Institute
• New National Library Week materials and more from ALA Graphics
• 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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