Intellectual Freedom News 9/6/19
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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
- 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
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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