Intellectual Freedom News 4/26/2019
April 26, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlights
- Libraries Close the Gap on Unequal Privacy During Choose Privacy Week 2019: Celebrate #ChoosePrivacy Week May 1 – May 7, 2019.
- Freedom to Read Foundation Announces Intellectual Freedom Course and Scholarship Opportunities
- Keep library workers safe | American Libraries; “My wife was killed at the library where she worked. We can take measures to prevent acts of violence in our libraries.”
- Archived Webinar with Kristin Pekoll: Don’t #%?$ My Graphic Novels: Conquering Challenges and Protecting the Right to Read
Censorship
- Maryland middle school cancels play but now says the show might go on | Washington Post
- Policy change in NJ school district paves way for censors | CPLDF
- Facing the PTA: Scales on Censorship | School Library Journal
- Teacher accuses high school of free speech censorship over article about student in adult entertainment industry | Newsweek
Privacy
- NSA reportedly recommends retiring phone surveillance program | C|net
- Big business is poking holes in California’s landmark privacy law | Fast Company
- Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State | New York Times
- The privacy implications of self-driving cars | OIF Blog
- Are workplace wellness programs a privacy problem? | Consumer Reports
- Amazon’s Alexa team can access users’ home addresses | Bloomberg
- Think you’re discreet online? Think again | New York Times
- To really protect our privacy, let’s put some numbers on it | Fast Company
- Facebook will finally pay—billions—for its privacy missteps | Wired
- Congress urged to ban use of data for voter suppression, discrimination | Media Post
- The privacy and antitrust worlds are starting to cross over | IAPP Privacy Advisor
Access
- When local newspapers close, what can libraries do? | OIF Blog
- The bias hiding in your library | The Conversation
- Yale students aren’t ready to close the book on the school’s libraries just yet | Washington Post
- Blockchain technology may lead to true ebook ownership | Good E-Reader
Net Neutrality and Broadband Access
- Millions of refugees need broadband, too | Washington Post
- The digital divide is worse than we thought | Tech Radar
- A Case for Critical Public Interest Technologists | Data & Society
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Sizing Up Twitter Users | Pew Research Center
- Key takeaways from our new study of how Americans use Twitter | Pew Research Center
- Tech companies want to silence hate speech, but can they? | SF Gate
- Facebook blocks could open the door to online censorship | The Verge
- Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook and Twitter over free speech | Texas Tribune
- It’s U.S. vs. world as big tech faces specter of limiting speech online | New York Times
- How WhatsApp, FaceTime and other encryption apps shaped the outcome of the Mueller report | Washington Post
- Twitter shuts down 5,000 pro-Trump bots retweeting anti-Mueller report invective | Ars Technica
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Fears over Singapore’s ‘fake news’ proposal | Inside Higher Education
- Student expelled from school over ‘politically incorrect views:’ lawsuit | The Verge
- Is a university honoring a Holocaust denier? | Inside Higher Ed
First Amendment and Free Speech
- The Higher Education Act must protect free speech | The Hill
- Donald Trump, the ACLU, and the ongoing battle over the legitimacy of free speech | The New Yorker
- S.A. and Chick-fil-A shows why free speech matters | San Antonio Express-News
- The week in tech: Do you prefer free speech, or a perfectly clean internet? | New York Times
- Fifth Circuit rule for plaintiff in free speech challenge to sheriff office Facebook page | Constitutional Law Prof Blog
- First Five Podcast: A conversation with the executive director of the Student press Law Center | Freedom Forum Institute
- Divided 10th Circuit panel gives inadequate First Amendment protection to employee demoted for truthful sword court testimony | Freedom Forum Institute
Around the Web
- Justices to weigh whether Title VII covers sexual orientation, gender identity | Education Week
- Thoughts on Andrew Curran’s Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely | OIF Blog
- Houston high school’s dress code for parents draws pushback | Houston Public Media
- From ‘Little House’ to libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane’s troublemaking life | NPR
- The fall, and the rise, of reading | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Burning books for children | OIF Blog; “One author’s experience bringing Che Guavera to the heartland”
International Issues
- China’s national library wants to archive social media posts and users aren’t happy | Abacus News
- Russia’s sovereign internet law will destroy innovation | The Moscow Times
- China film industry: Beijing balances censorship and growth | Aljazeera
- Sri Lanka temporarily blocks social media: Public safety or censorship? | Freedom Forum Institute
- Don’t praise the Sri Lankan government for blocking Facebook | Wired
- Barcelona school purges 200 kids’ books | CBLDF
ALA News
- 2019 ALA Virtual Membership Meeting; May 9th @ 1:30 CST
- New session: Offering Service and Support to the LGBTQIA Community and Allies Workshop
- Conversing with the Ethnic Affiliates of the American Library Association Webinar
- U.S. Department of Education Seeks Comments on IPEDS Changes by May 20
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