[Libs-Or] Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions: Intellectual Freedom - News APRIL 2020

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions:

Intellectual Freedom News - April 2020

Censorship

Mat-Su school board bans five books from high school reading list
<https://www.ktva.com/story/42042449/matsu-school-board-bans-5-books-from-high-school-reading-list>
KTVA.com

Let Students Learn: Our Response to the Removal of Classic Novels from
Mat-Su School Curriculum <https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20598>  ALA Office
of Intellectual Freedom

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2019
<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10>
American Library Association

Eight of 10 most-banned books challenged for LGBTQ content
<https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/eight-10-most-banned-books-challenged-lgbtq-content-n1188041>
NBC News

Fighting Censorship & Challenges to Powerful Teen Texts
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20536>  ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog

Authors New to the Challenged List: Jarrett J. Krosoczka & Meredith Russo
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20573>  ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog

Listen Up! Read-aloud Challenges <https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20335>
ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog

Classroom Libraries Are For Reading, Not Censorship
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20481> ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog

First Amendment

When can the government prevent me from assembling, anyway?
<https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=20582>  ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog

The Important First Amendment Principle Now at Risk
<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/important-first-amendment-principle-now-risk/610348/>
The Atlantic

Privacy

The expansion of mass surveillance to stop coronavirus should worry us all
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/18/mass-surveillance-coronavirus-technology-expansion>
The Guardian

The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the
next level
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/15/tech-coronavirus-surveilance-state-digital-disrupt>
The Guardian

Machine learning could check if you're social distancing properly at work
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/17/1000092/ai-machine-learning-watches-social-distancing-at-work/>
MIT Technology Review

Apple-Google virus-tracking plan carries data security risks
<https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/apple-google-virus-tracking-plan-carries-data-security-risks>
Bloomberg Law

Managing health privacy and bias in COVID-19 public surveillance
<https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/04/21/managing-health-privacy-and-bias-in-covid-19-public-surveillance/>
Brookings

Census 2020 will protect your privacy more than ever -- but at the price of
accuracy
<https://theconversation.com/census-2020-will-protect-your-privacy-more-than-ever-but-at-the-price-of-accuracy-130116>
The Conversation

ICE has access to DACA recipients' personal information despite promises
suggesting otherwise, internal emails show
<https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-has-access-to-daca-recipients-personal-information-despite-promises-suggesting-otherwise-internal-emails-show>
ProPublica

CARES Act tribal data breached:  one observer calls it Indian Country's
'Watergate''
<https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/cares-act-tribal-data-breached-one-observer-calls-it-indian-countrys-watergate/>
Native News Online

Data breach may have exposed personal information of thousands of SBA
emergency loan applicants
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/21/sba-data-loan-small-business/>
Washington Post

Hacker leaks 23 million usernames and passwords from Webkinz children's game
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-leaks-23-million-usernames-and-passwords-from-webkinz-childrens-game/>
ZDNet

Diversity

We Need Diverse Books Covid-19 Resources
<https://diversebooks.org/covid-19-resources/> WNDB

We Need Diverse Books Launches Emergency Fund
<https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/83033-we-need-diverse-books-launches-emergency-fund.html>
Publishers Weekly

After the RWA Controversy, Romance Authors Say Publishing Needs to Address
Racism
<https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/a31139140/black-authors-romance-writers-association-controversy-racism/>
Oprah Magazine

Net Neutrality & Broadband Access

Coronavirus pandemic shines light on deep digital divide in U.S. amid
efforts to narrow it
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/04/29/coronavirus-pandemic-shines-light-deep-digital-divide-us-amid-efforts-narrow-it/>
Washington Post

Libraries and Schools Are Bridging the Digital Divide During the
Coronavirus Pandemic
<https://www.consumerreports.org/technology-telecommunications/libraries-and-schools-bridging-the-digital-divide-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/>
Consumer Reports

Libraries face more demand than during Great Recession: report
<https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/public-library-association-survey-coronavirus-resources/575978/>
Smart Cities Dive

The Cause of Wonder and Worry Over Digital Cities Post Virus
<https://www.archdaily.com/938484/the-cause-of-wonder-and-worry-over-digital-cities-post-virus>
The Arch Daily

‘Truly the last safe haven’: Libraries serve vulnerable communities during
the pandemic
<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/truly-the-last-safe-haven-libraries-serve-vulnerable-communities-during-the-pandemic>
PBS NewsHour

'Drive-By Wi-Fi': Hotspots Pop Up To Bridge Digital Divide
<https://www.opb.org/news/article/wi-fi-hotspots-bridge-digital-divide/>
OPB

Library of Congress Releases App with Mobile Access to Digital Collection
<https://thejournal.com/articles/2020/04/22/library-of-congress-releases-app-with-mobile-access-to-digital-collection.aspx?m=1>
THE Journal

Prison E-Readers and Tablets Should Be Free During Coronavirus Outbreak
<https://pen.org/press-release/prison-e-readers-and-tablets-should-be-free-during-coronavirus-outbreak/>
PEN America

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Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions is a monthly roundup of Intellectual
Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom
Committee

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Ekatrina Sotomayor
Access Services Assistant
Holgate Library
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