Intellectual Freedom News 12/27/19
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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