Intellectual Freedom News 7/12/19
July 12, 2019 – Collated by OIF Staff and News Editors
Highlights
- DigitalLead: Hotspot Lending at Your Library, will be held 1-2 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday, July 30. As part of the DigitalLead project, PLA will present a free webinar offering tools and resources to help public library staff start a WiFi hotspot lending program at their institutions.
Censorship
- “[T]hose librarians failed students”: Book ban at Irving Independent School District | Book Riot
- Book banning bigotry | Dallas Voice
- Removed books have been returned to the Danville Correctional Center | Smile Politely
- After protest, Leander Library halts all room rentals pending policy review | Hill Country News
- ‘They sit and rip’: Former inmate claims in suit that Rikers Island correction officers routinely censor the Daily News | NY Daily News
- Leander Public Library abruptly cancels appearance of popular comic author | The Hill
Privacy
- How do we protect our kids’ data and privacy | Wired
- FBI, ICE Find State Driver’s License Photos are a Gold Mine for Facial-Recognition Searches | The Washington Post
- House Judiciary Committee ranking member introduces principles for federal US privacy law | IAPP
- Schools wrestle with privacy of digital data collected on students | The Wall Street Journal
- Critics seek tough punishment for YouTube over kids’ privacy | The Hill
- Dr. Chris Gilliard on surveillance and its effects on marginalized communities | Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU (Recording)
- ‘Fingerprinting’ to Track Us Online Is on the Rise. Here’s What to Do. | New York Times
- How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide | The New Yorker
- As Privacy Concerns Grow, States Create Bold Policies | GovTech
- House Lawmakers Target September, October for Data Privacy Bill, Aides Say | The Morning Consult
Additional privacy news updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.
Access
- The future of ebook pricing: ALA concerned over recent changes in publisher strategy | American Libraries
- U. of California canceled its Elsevier subscription. Now it’s losing access. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- “This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law | Ars Technica
- Net neutrality was repealed a year ago — what’s happened since? | The Verge
- Killing net neutrality rules did far more harm than you probably realize | TechDirt
- Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service | Ars Technica
- For rural broadband, sometimes cities must step in | Voice of America
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Trump Looks to Enforce Fairness on Social Media | Broadcasting & Cable
- Robocop is watching: Instagram to use AI to censor mean comments | CryptoCoin News
- This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix | MIT Technology Review
- Trump v. Big Tech: Social media summit will snub tech titans | The New York Times
- Letting the Internet Regulate Itself Was a Good Idea — in the 1990s | The New York Times
- The ugly side of Facebook’s pivot to privacy is starting to show | The Verge
First Amendment & Free Speech
- Trump can’t block critics from his Twitter account, appeals court rules | The New York Times
- Iowa man charged for critical Facebook post wins settlement | AP News
- Teens and teaching the First Amendment | OIF Blog
- Judge: New Orleans can’t take down Trump quotes mural | The New York Times
- U.S. newsroom employment has dropped a quarter since 2008, with greatest decline at newspapers | Pew Research Center Fact Tank
Around the Web
- Who has the most censored internet? | Gizmodo
- UBC professor compiles list of 118,000 banned books | City News
- Review of ‘Beyond Banned Books: Defending Intellectual Freedom throughout your Library’ | OIF Blog
- Happy birthday, Juno Dawson! | OIF Blog
- Happy belated birthday, Jean Craighead George | OIF Blog
International Issues
- War against an oppressive rule: The Iranian cinema and censorship | International Policy Digest
- Hungary’s academic freedom and the EU: Is it all hot air? | The Globe Post
- Tania Bruguera fights censorship by launching investigative journalism project in Cuba | The Art Newspaper
ALA News
- Accepting Applications for 2020 Class of ALA Emerging Leaders
- July PLA webinar explores access issues related to unreturned library materials
- ALA ‘concerned’ about Hachette Book Group ebook and audio book lending model changes
- ALA uneasy about Simon & Schuster digital lending model changes
- Nominate a superstar librarian for the I Love My Librarian award
- 2020 ALA Annual Conference Program Proposals are Now Open
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