Intellectual Freedom Highlights

• Choose Privacy Week 2018: Explore, Learn, & Teach about Big Data | OIF Blog; “In the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony last week and the related explosion of public interest in how online personal data is collected, stored, shared, used and sometimes misused, this year’s CPW theme is “Big Data is Watching You”

Censorship

• Parents denounce ‘pornographic’ assignment at Billings school meeting | KTVH (MT)
• School district considering permission slip for book about transgender girl | KATU News (OR)
• The problem with problematic YA authors | Knowledge Quest
• Banned books, lack of librarians: What it’s like to read in a NC prison | WRAL (NC)
• Separate is still not equal | OIF Blog
• Defying “Unsettling Policies”: An Interview With Lindsey Whittington | OIF Blog

Privacy

• Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer | Data & Society
• Choose Privacy Week 2018: Big Data Is Watching You | ALA News
• Lessons from the Facebook fiasco: Apparently libraries may be learning all the wrong ones | Inside Higher Ed
• Thousands of Android Mobile Apps Improperly Track Children, Study Says | Education Week
• A short guide on how not to be tracked online by your government | OIF Blog
• Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law | Reuters
• Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users | Reuters
• Facebook Is Steering Users Away From Privacy Protections | Wired
• Facebook Is Creepy. And Valuable. | The New York Times
• Google loses landmark ‘right to be forgotten’ case | The Guardian

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

Net Neutrality and Broadband Access

• How Healthy is the Internet? | Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Internet Health Report | Mozilla
• ISPs should charge for fast lanes—just like TSA Precheck, GOP lawmaker says | Ars Technica
• Bad news for AT&T and Comcast: Calif. Senate panel OKs net neutrality bill | Ars Technica
• Net neutrality and our freedom to think and speak | Benton Foundation

Hate Crimes and Hate Speech

• Antisemitic graffiti discovered at Glencoe Public Library | Chicago Tribune

Copyright

• The Marrakesh Treaty and Why It Is Important to Librarians | Knowledge Quest; “There’s new proposed national legislation for librarians to monitor and support. On March 15, 2018, the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate with bipartisan support. The proposed legislation will amend the U.S. Copyright Act 17, U.S.C. § 121, to be in compliance with the Marrakesh Treaty “

Free Press, Social Media, and Fake News

• Americans Favor Protecting Information Freedoms Over Government Steps to Restrict False News Online | Pew Research Center

Academic Freedom and Campus Speech

• Professor’s Tweet That Barbara Bush Was an ‘Amazing Racist’ Ignites a Fury | Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Fresno State’s Castro didn’t defend my free speech. A year later, he’s learned nothing | Fresno Bee (CA)
  • How low can a tenured professor go on Twitter? Fresno case could be a test | Chronicle of Higher Education
• Student Occupation, Coming to a Campus Near You | Chronicle of Higher Education

First Amendment and Free Speech

• Libraries play role in supporting First Amendment | Herald-Whig (IL)
• Everything you need to know about the April 20 National School Walkout | Time
• Venting on social media? Yes, you can, but the First Amendment won’t save your job | Sacramento Bee (CA)
• Police officers’ First Amendment claims proceed, survive Garcetti | Newseum Institute

Around the Web

• Google update just created a big problem for anti-censorship tools | The Verge
• The 2018 Free Expression Awards left us inspired | Newseum Institute
• Legal fight escalates over Aaron Sorkin adaptation of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ | CNN
• Who’s more bigoted and intolerant: Chick-fil-A or the New Yorker writer who attacked it? | Washington Examiner
• Homework assignment asks students to list ‘positive aspects’ of life as a slave | Newsweek
• The 6 most beautiful new libraries in the US | Business Insider

International Issues

• #Metoo in China: fledgling movement in universities fights censorship | The Guardian
• Theaters In Saudi Arabia to show movies — but not without censorship | MSN News
• 4,390 books banned in five years | Kuwait Times
• China’s Weibo site backtracks on gay censorship after outcry | ABC News
• ‘I raised my voice because secularism was under threat’ | Sunday Guardian Live (India)
• China’s internet censorship should be lifted for the sake of the economy and innovators | South China Morning Post
• EU Commission proposes making fingerprints mandatory in ID cards | Reuters

• MLS not required: After contentious debate, ALA ballot measure fails | Publishers Weekly

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