Intellectual Freedom News
Intellectual Freedom News
April 21, 2016
Office for Intellectual Freedom
- Webinar: Dear Representative. April 22, 11:00am CST. Navigating government offices and officials can be complicated and incredibly overwhelming. But it is important. Speakers, Lisa Lindle, Grassroots Communications Specialist of the Office of Government Relations and Deborah Caldwell Stone, Deputy Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom will make the process easy and accessible. This webinar is in partnership with the Office for Library Advocacy, Chapter Relations Office, and United for Libraries who collaborate for National Library Legislative Day. #nlld16
- Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2015 (video)
- Choose Privacy Week May 1-7, 2016 (Has your library or school planned a Choose Privacy Week event? Please share the details by emailing oif@ala.org and we will add it to our listing of 2016 Choose Privacy Week events.)
Censorship
- Looking for Alaska; Kentucky Letters to the Editor are Important | Intellectual Freedom Blog
- It’s Perfectly Normal; Oregon Sex ed books pulled from library shelves at Rainier elementary school | Oregon 12
- Bible; Ohio Bible removed from POW display at Wright-Patt medical center | Dayton Daily News
- The Bluest Eye; Michigan Ban a book? Instead, trust the English teacher | Detroit Free Press
Legislation
- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam Vetoes Bible Bill | Tennessean
- HB 516; Our Words Result in a Virginia Victory for Teacher Selection of Texts | NCTE
- Email exchange over Virginia’s “Beloved” bill | Washington Post
- Editorial: Books in school not Assembly’s business | Free Lance-Star
Privacy
- Microsoft Sues U.S. Government Over Data Requests | The New York Times
- Three Shades of Privacy | Inside Higher Ed
- How Big Data Harms Poor Communities | The Atlantic
- How Europe’s New Privacy Rules Affect the Entire Digital Economy | Christian Science Monitor
- A Scheme To Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working | Wired (Let’s Encrypt)
- Court troubled by surveillance excesses at FBI, NSA | Politico
- How hackers eavesdropped on a US Congressman using only his phone number | Ars Technica
- Opinion: Burr-Feinstein anti-encryption bill a firing offense | Christian Science Monitor
- Feinstein-Burr, Encryption, and “The Rule of Law” | Just Security
Around the Web
- The Practice of Challenging ‘Bad’ Books | Alton Telegraph
- Merkel lets comedian face prosecution for Erdoğan poem | The Guardian
- Tell your lawmaker: approve the amazing, copyfighting, surveillance-hating new Librarian of Congress! | BoingBoing; Please tweet at your senators in support of Dr.Hayden #hayden4loc
- The Repression of Religious Studies | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Why Speaking Arabic in America Feels Like a Crime | The Guardian
- Inside the Movement to Declare Pornography a ‘Health Crisis’ | The Atlantic
- The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone’s Feelings | Thought Catalog
ALA News
- LITA Preconference on Digital Privacy
- Freedom to Read Foundation Banned Books Week Grants applications accepted through May 15, 2016
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