[Libs-Or] Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions - April 2018, Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom Committee Newsletter

[Lisa TAYLOR]

April 2018

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions

Intellectual Freedom News


Privacy


Choose Privacy Week 2018: Explore, learn, and teach about big data
<https://chooseprivacyweek.org/cpw2019-explore-learn-teach-big-data/> Choose
Privacy Week Blog, ALA

Homeland Security to compile database of journalists, Bloggers
<https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-security-to-compile-database-of-journalists-bloggers/>
Bloomberg Law

Data and Goliath: Four ways you can protect yourself from digital
surveillance
<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-schneier/data-and-goliath-digital-surveillance_b_6898162.html>
 Huffington Post


‘Big Brother’ in India requires fingerprint scans for food, phones and
finances
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/technology/india-id-aadhaar.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FSurveillance%20of%20Citizens%20by%20Government&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection>
 New
York Times

Censorship

ALA announces top 10 challenged books of 2017
<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/NLW-Top10>  ALA office for Intellectual
Freedom

Free Speech

'Campus free-speech crisis' is focus of new law – despite lack of Arizona
incidents
<https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2018/04/27/campus-free-speech-crisis-focus-new-law-hb-2563-despite-lack-arizona-incidents/543283002/>
AZCentral


Intellectual Freedom

Aurora Library removes poem after accusations of Islamophobia
<https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/aurora-library-removes-poem-hijab-means-jihad-after-backlash-480568281.html>
NBC
Chicago

    Aurora Library employee resigns after Muslim poem controversy
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/opinion/ct-abn-crosby-library-poem-st-0425-story.html>
Chicago
Tribune

Internet/Social Media

Facebook reveals its censorship guidelines for the first time -- all 27
 pages
<http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-guidelines-20180424-story.html>
Los
Angeles Times

    Platform censorship won’t fix the Internet (opinion
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/platform-censorship-wont-fix-internet?page=8>)
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Access

Reference: New database tracks evictions in the United States, data set
also available
<https://www.infodocket.com/2018/04/27/reference-new-databasedata-set-tracks-evictions-in-the-united-states/>
Library
Journal Infodocket

ALA Panel on Capitol Hill: Leverage libraries, E-rate to improve tribal,
rural access to high-speed Internet
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/04/ala-panel-capitol-hill-leverage-libraries-e-rate-improve-tribal-rural-access>
 ALA
News

Other

Oregon governor fires state librarian
<https://lj.libraryjournal.com/2018/04/industry-news/oregon-governor-fires-state-librarian/#_>
Library
Journal



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*Lisa Taylor*
Library Assistant
Multnomah County Library
Central Library
Schedule: Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Pronouns: she, her
https://multcolib.org
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