December 29, 2017 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors

Intellectual Freedom Highlights

• Meet the 2018 Intellectual Freedom Bloggers! | Intellectual Freedom Blog; “On Monday, we flip the calendars to 2018; we resolve to change our lifestyles for the better; and we welcome a new slate of intellectual freedom advocates to share opinions and knowledge about a core value of the librarian profession.”
• Teen Vogue challenge | Intellectual Freedom Blog

Censorship

• Judge blocks state from oversight, restrictions of TUSD ‘ethnic studies’ program | Tucson.com
  • Judge adds more teeth to ruling against Mexican-American studies ban | AZ Central
  • Arizona can’t ban Mexican-American studies anymore, judge says | Huffington Post
  • Federal judge blocks Arizona from banning Mexican American studies classes | Los Angeles Times
• Editorial: Administration censors science for the sake of ‘community standards and wishes’ | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Privacy

• 5 New Year’s Resolutions to Protect Your Technology | The New York Times
• New Consumers Union report catalogs the potential collateral damage from the crypto wars | BoingBoing
• Privacy Complaints Mount Over Phone Searches at U.S. Border Since 2011 | New York Times
• Not Ready for Takeoff:  Face Scans at Airport Departure Gates | Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology
• Those airport cameras tracking your face my not be legal, study finds | Washington Post
• The Great Data Breach Disasters of 2017 | Gizmodo
• Public opinion often sets privacy standards for smart city tech | GT

See this week’s additional privacy news and updates on the Choose Privacy Week blog.

Net Neutrality and Broadband Access

• In wake of net neutrality decision, should cities build internet networks? | Curbed
• What net neutrality really means for you (and for us) | Huffington Post
• The year the open internet came under siege: 2017 year in review | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Net neutrality complaints rise amid FCC repeal | Axios

Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News

• Facebook’s uneven enforcement of hate speech rules allows vile posts to stay up | ProPublica
• What does Facebook consider hate speech? | ProPublica
• Confessions of a digital Nazi hunter | New York Times
• A year in fake news, and what to look forward to (or how to tune out) in 2018 | NiemanLab
• Facebook is censoring people the US government sanctions | Quartz

Academic Freedom and Campus Speech

• Universities fear a violent 2018 | Politico
• College students clash repeatedly over free speech issues | NPR
• Controversial Professor Quits | Inside Higher Education; “After a year of turmoil over his social media comments, George Ciccariello-Maher writes that it is no longer safe for him to teach at Drexel.”

First Amendment and Free Speech

• What we discovered during a year of documenting hate |  ProPublica
• Hawaiian Supreme Court Says The First Amendment Protects Filming Law Enforcement | Techdirt
• Is the First Amendment too broad? The case for regulating hate speech in America | NBC News
• Anti-BDS laws move to federal courts | NCAC

Around the Web

• How the blockchain is redefining trust | Wired
• Key trends shaping technology in 2017 | Pew Research Center
• 15 Books CBLDF Defended in 2017 | CBLDF
• TEENS: The affect of censorship on a teenager | MyWebTimes.com
• The Library of Congress will curtail its Twitter collection in 2018 | Fortune
• In Prince Harry interview, Obama takes a stand for free speech | Washington Examiner
• Cover ups: 15 DC And Marvel covers that fooled the censors | CBR
• John Newbery: The first man to write books for children – so why don’t we remember him? | The National
• Does Aung San Suu Kyi belong in a children’s book of heroic women, ‘Rebel Girls’? | Los Angeles Times

International Issues

• Why is Malaysia scared of books, asks Zaid | FMT News
  • Readers are voters, too, writer warns against book censorship | The Malaysian Insight
• Britain may fine universities that limit free speech | Inside Higher Education
  • Universities will be less able to make scientific breakthroughs if they do not tackle ‘safe space’ culture, minister warns | Telegraph
• Finnish National Bibliography released as open data | The National Library of Finland

ALA News

• ALA 2018 Annual Conference Preliminary Scheduler is live! Check out the awesome programs available before registration and housing open Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 12:00 Noon CST.
• Just two days left in 2017 to support ALA with your tax-deductible gift. Matching funds are still available! Double the impact for #IntellectualFreedom when you #GiveALA this year.
• ALA invites nominations for 2018 Eileen Cooke State & Local Madison Award. The award recognizes an individual or group who has championed, protected, or promoted public access to government information and the public’s right to know at the state or local level.

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