Intellectual Freedom News 7/27/20
Highlight
Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Private ways to access books on sensitive subjects at Tiffin-Seneca Public Library | Advertiser-Tribune (OH)
- Building Anti-Surveillance Ed-Tech | Hack Education
- Amazon, Google, Microsoft sued over photos in facial recognition database | CNET
- New York bans use of facial recognition in schools statewide | Venture Beat
- DHS Authorizes Domestic Surveillance to Protect Statues and Monuments | Lawfare
- Atlas of Surveillance: Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities | EFF
- Contact Tracing Demonstrates Need for National Privacy Laws, Lawmaker Says | NextGov
- Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data | New York Times
- Tucker Carlson battles with The New York Times over privacy | Associated Press
Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, and Civil Liberties
- Trump’s crackdown in Portland is an attack on free speech | Washington Post
- Statement on federal police abuses in Portland, Oregon | National Coalition Against Censorship
- Nothing Can Justify the Attack on Portland | The Atlantic
Access
- Librarians alarmed about coronavirus safety at D.C.’s reopened public libraries | Washington Post
- School libraries get repurosed in reopening plans | School Library Journal
Net Neutrality & Broadband Access
- The American Federal Definition of Broadband Is Both Useless and Harmful | Electronic Fronteir Foundation
- Doing Schoolwork in the Parking Lot Is Not a Solution | New York Times; “In a pandemic-plagued country, high-speed internet connections are a civil rights issue.”
- In Michigan, closing the digital divide can unite the ‘red’ and the ‘blue’ | Brookings
- Bridging the digital divide through digital equity offices | Brookings
Academic Freedom & Campus Speech
- New Data on Academic Freedom and Financial Exigency Policies | Inside Higher Education
- Fordham University Disciplines Student (Austin Tong) for Political Instagram Posts | The Volokh Conspiracy
Fake News, Free Press, Social Media
- Most Americans say social media companies have too much power, influence in politics | Pew Research Center
- Twitter cracks down on QAnon conspiracy theory, banning 7,000 accounts | TechCrunch
- Biased algorithms on platforms like YouTube hurt people looking for information on health | Nieman Lab
- Wall Street Journal staffers asked the editorial board for more accuracy. The board bemoaned ‘cancel culture.’ | Washington Post
International News
Around the Web
- Remembering John Lewis | American Libraries
- Alison Bechdel on Howard Cruse’s gay graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby | Slate
- Freedom To Read, COVID-19 Edition | Scales on Censorship | School Library Journal
- The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning | Educause
ALA News
- ALA awards $1.3 million to 13 libraries to develop library entrepreneurship centers
- CopyTalk webinar on copyright LibGuides coming August 6
- School librarians lead during pandemic learning conditions
- ALA COVID-19 resources guide path to reopening and recovery
- The electronic resources troubleshooting guide
- Constructing library buildings that work
- ALA, Capital One invite rural libraries to apply for Community Connect: Digital Access at Home grants; due August 26
- Libraries invited to apply for ALA’s ‘Resilient Communities: Libraries Respond to Climate Change’; due August 28
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