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Banned Books Week

• Libraries ‘Keep the Light On’ During Banned Books Week | ALA News
• Countdown to Banned Books Week 2019 | Facebook
• Order Banned Books Week materials by Sept. 9 to get them in time for the annual event
• Library Corner: Why we celebrate banned books | Owasso Reporter
• Join “Celebrate Banned Books Week”: a Facebook group designed to foster meaningful conversation and share engaging ideas for anyone who celebrates Banned Books Week.

Censorship

• Author Julia Watts Disinvited from Teen Lit Festival | Publisher’s Weekly
• Catholic school bans ‘Harry Potter’ – but according to free speech advocates, it’s nothing new | Forbes
• When We Ban Books Like ‘Harry Potter,’ Students Lose Out On More Than Magic | Huffington Post

Privacy and Cybersecurity

• YouTube will pay $170 million to settle claims it violated child privacy laws | CNBC
• Has Your Child’s Info Been Compromised by a Data Breach? | Government Technology
• Ninth Circuit certifies privacy class action against Facebook’s photo tag suggestion tool | Pearl Cohen
• Senators on protecting kids’ privacy: ‘It’s complicated’ | Wired
• TSA Launches Facial Recognition Pilot at Las Vegas Airport | NextGov
  • Use of facial recognition tech in airports runs into privacy fears | Security InfoWatch
  • More Than Half of U.S. Adults Trust Law Enforcement to Use Facial Recognition Responsibly | Pew Research Center “But the public is less accepting of facial recognition technology when used by advertisers or technology companies.”
• Google is open-sourcing a tool for data scientists to help protect private information | The Verge
  • Google wants to help tech companies know Less about you | Wired
• Senator pushes Amazon for details about Ring “partnerships” with police | Ars Technica
• California adopted the country’s first major consumer privacy law. Now, Silicon Valley is trying to rewrite it. | The Washington Post
• Why 5G requires new approaches to cybersecurity | Brookings
• Privacy Primer: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) | CyberLaw Monitor

Additional privacy posts, news, and updates are available at the Choose Privacy Everyday blog.

Access

• Macmillan expands library e-book embargo | OIF Blog
• Why survey estimates of the number of Americans online don’t always agree | Pew Research Center FactTank

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

• One more time: Just because the internet didn’t explode doesn’t mean killing net neutrality was a great idea | Techdirt
• Broadband in minority and rural communities — waiting for government won’t work | The Hill

Academic Freedom & Campus Speech

• UW System protest policy could become state law | The Daily Cardinal (WA)

Fake News, Free Press, Social Media

• Trump allies investigate CNN, New York Times staff to discredit news. Will personal probes undermine media? | Christian Science Monitor
• Deepfake app ‘Zao’ goes viral, sparks another round of privacy debates | Techspot
• Federal district judge issues preliminary injunction to restore press pass | Constitutional Law Professors Blog
• How the Times uses FOIA to obtain information the public has a right to know | The New York Times

First Amendment & Free Speech

• Viewpoint discrimination | OIF Blog
• YouTube is not the government, no matter how much conservatives cry ‘censorship’ | The Chicago Sun Times
• First amendment protections resilient for free speech, free press | Freedom Forum Institute

Around the Web

• To the barricades: Writing and reading in the Trump Era (Op-Ed by Laurie Halse Anderson) | School Library Journal
• School Librarian Jobs Face an Uncertain Future | CityLab
• How to Talk to Your Kids About Immigration | Strand Books
• Read it and weep: LGBTQ kids deserve queer-friendly books | The Berkeley Beacon
• How “information gerrymandering” influences voters | MIT News; ” Study analyzes how networks can distort voters’ perceptions and change election results. “
• The A to Z of Gen Z | Library Journal

International Issues

• Behind the rise of China’s facial-recognition giants | Wired
• Life in an Internet shutdown: Crossing borders for email and contraband SIM cards | The New York Times (Zimbabwe)

ALA News

• ALSC receives $150,000 from IMLS to host Welcoming Spaces National Forum
• ALA partners with Democracy Class on voter education for youth
• 35 libraries selected for ALA’s Great Stories Club series on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
• GNCRT spotlights comic creators to #GetLibraryCarded for #LibraryCardSignUp Month
• To be considered as a volunteer for the ALA, Council, and Joint committees for the 2020-2022 term, forms must be submitted no later than September 30, 2019.
• Nominate a superstar librarian for the I Love My Librarian award before Oct. 21, 2019.

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