Intellectual Freedom News 6/5/2020
Highlights
- ALA Executive Board stands with BCALA in condemning violence and racism towards Black people and all People of Color; “The ALA Executive Board endorses BCALA’s May 28 statement, in which the caucus decries the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police Department officers and cites Floyd’s death as “the latest in a long line of recent and historical violence against Black people in the United States.”
- Statements From Libraries and Library Organizations Re: Racism and Increased Violence | Library Journal InfoDocket
Library Services & COVID-19 Resources
- ALA COVID-19 Response
- Pandemic Preparedness: Resources for Libraries | American Library Association
- ALA Survey Shows Effects of Pandemic on Library Services | American Libraries
- Contact Tracing and Library Workers | Intelletual Freedom Blog
- Library Labor: We Need a National Library Workers Organization | Editorial | Library Journal
- Libraries Collect COVID-19 Stories in Quaranzines | Library Journal
- ALA Survey Reports Similar Library Reopening Plans, But Scattered Schedules | Library Journal
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- Trump Says He’ll Deploy Military To States If They Don’t Stop Violent Protests | NPR
- Journalists Under Fire: Reporters Covering Protests Face Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas, Arrests | Variety
- CNN arrests took place ‘for no fathomable reason’ | PEN America
- Why police can violate your constitutional rights and suffer no consequences in court | Vox
- US states have spent the past 5 years trying to criminalize protest | Grist
- False claims of antifa protesters plague small U.S. cities | Associated Press
- The War on Terror Comes Home | Slate
- Black Lives Matter sues Trump administration over use of force on D.C. protesters | NBC News
- ACLU Minnesota Sues Police on Behalf of Journalists Targeted Covering Protests | The Wrap
- SCOTUS Denies Emergency Injunction by Church Challenging California COVID-19 Order | Constitutional Law Prof Blog
- Trump calls on Supreme Court, governors to ban flag burning | Associated Press – WTHR
- Free Speech Under Fire | NCAC Blogging Censorship
- Protests Across America Through the Eyes of Black Photographers | Bloomberg Businessweek
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- DEA Can Secretly Surveil George Floyd Protesters | BuzzFeed
- How to protest safely in the age of surveillance | Wired
- The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t. | Vox Recode
- Debate on surveillance and privacy heats up as U.S. protests rage | Reuters
- ICE Outlines how Investigators Rely on Third-Party Facial Recognition Services | Nextgov
- OSHA revises guidance on tracking COVID-19 in the workplace | IAPP
- The debate over workers’ electronic privacy is dying right when it’s needed most | Protocol
- Members of Congress to unveil bipartisan bill to regulate contact-tracing apps, fearing potential privacy abuses | Washington Post
- Zoom Won’t Fully Encrypt Free Calls so it can Work with the FBI | Decrypt
- Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption for paying customers | Reuters
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
Access
- School Libraries and UDL in the Time of Learning from Home | School Library Journal
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right | The Guardian
Copyright
- Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over Free E-Books | New York Times
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- Muslim student sues Scottsdale Community college and professor over Islam quiz questions | AZ Central
- University to Investigate Professor Who Tweeted About ‘Black Privilege’ | New York Times
- As Racist Posts Circulate, Some Colleges Rescind Admissions Offers. Others Say Their Hands Are Tied | Chronicle of Higher Education
- Academic Freedom and COVID-19 in China | Inside Higher Ed
- Academic Freedom for American College’s China Program | Inside Higher Education
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach | WIRED
- Trump, Facebook, and the weaponization of free speech | Columbia Journalism Review
- Trump Sued Over Executive Order Targeting Social Media Firms | Bloomberg Law
- Fast facts about Americans’ views of social media companies as Trump-Twitter dispute grows | Pew Research Center
- Twitter to prioritize posts ‘with highest potential for harm’ for censorship | The Hill
- YouTube Censorship Case Turns on Internet Law Trump Scorns | Bloomberg
- Facebook to block ads from state-controlled media entities in the U.S. | Axios
- TikTok Apologizes After Accusations Of Censorship Of #BlackLivesMatter Posts | Forbes
Around the Web
- The activist dismantling racist police algorithms | MIT Technology Review
- Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way. | MIT Technology Review
- Authors Organize Kid Lit Rally for Black Lives on Facebook | School Library Journal
- Anti-Racism Graphic Novels Reading & Resources List | CBLDF
- 10 Incredible LGBTQIA Books to Read this Pride Month | Variety
- This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score” | MIT Technology Review
- Intellectual Freedom and Harmful Conspiracy Theories: Where do we draw the line? | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories | Nature
- Amazon reverses ban on book critical of coronavirus lockdown after decision is blasted by many, including Elon Musk | Washington Post
International Issues
- Coronavirus: France’s virus-tracing app ‘off to a good start’ | BBC
- Italy launches COVID-19 contact-tracing app amid privacy concerns | Report Door
- Bangladeshi Government Decides There’s No Time Like The Present To Censor/Arrest More Journalists | TechDirt
ALA News
- PLA’s COVID-19 webinar series highlights need for sharing, new ideas
- Survey: Libraries examine phased building re-opening, prepare summer programs
- AASL Partners with StoryCorps to Launch StoryCorps Connect and Bring Individuals Together
- ALA Editions releases free PDF of coloring pages, writing prompts, and uplifting quotes
- Young activists and the public library
- ACRL, ARL, ODLOS, and PLA announce joint cultural competencies task force
- Mark your calendar, ALA Virtual: Community through Connection June 24-26, 2020
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