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

[Ekatrina Sotomayor]

Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions Intellectual Freedom News - OCTOBER
2020


Protests & Elections

Activists Sue San Francisco for Wide-Ranging Surveillance of Black-Led
Protests Against Police Violence
<https://www.eff.org/press/releases/activists-sue-san-francisco-wide-ranging-surveillance-black-led-protests-against>
- Electronic Frontier Foundation

As the Election Nears, Spanish Disinformation Targets Latino Voters
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/politics/spanish-election-2020-disinformation.html>
- New York Times

Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign
<https://cyber.harvard.edu/publication/2020/Mail-in-Voter-Fraud-Disinformation-2020>
- Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Diversity at Harvard University

Members of Congress Join the Fight for Protest Surveillance Transparency
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/members-congress-join-fight-protest-surveillance-transparency>
- Electronic Frontier Foundation

1 October 15, 2020 Eshoo - Rush - Wyden Letter to Privacy and Civil
Liberties Oversight Board
<https://eshoo.house.gov/sites/eshoo.house.gov/files/Eshoo-Rush-Wyden%20ltr%20to%20PCLOB%20re%20protests%20-%2010.15.20.pdf>
- Eshoo House

First Amendment, Censorship & Freedom of the Press

As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/technology/timpone-local-news-metric-media.html>
- New York Times

VOA White House Reporter Investigated For Anti-Trump Bias By Political
Appointees
<https://www.npr.org/2020/10/04/919266194/political-aides-investigate-voa-white-house-reporter-for-anti-trump-bias>
- NPR

Colleges cancel diversity programs in response to Trump order
<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/10/07/colleges-cancel-diversity-programs-response-trump-order>
- Inside Higher Ed

Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019
<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019>
- American Library Association

Banned Books Week is here: See what books were challenged in Oregon in
2019-20
<https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2020/09/banned-books-week-is-here-see-what-books-were-challenged-in-oregon-in-2019-20.html>
- Oregon Live

US Department of Justice push for encryption backdoors might run afoul of
First Amendment
<https://www.csoonline.com/article/3450020/us-department-of-justice-push-for-encryption-backdoors-might-run-afoul-of-first-amendment.html>
- CSO

6 whistleblowers allege misconduct by government media boss
<https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/30/whistleblowers-allege-misconduct-agency-for-global-media-423758>
- Politico

Social media, fake news & misinformation

House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ and Urge Their Breakups
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/congress-big-tech-monopoly-power.html>
- New York Times

The Department of Justice (DOJ) just filed an antitrust complaint against
Google : Planet Money
<https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/926168583/hey-google-are-you-too-big> - NPR

Opinion - Thank you for posting: Smoking’s lessons for regulating social
media
<https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/05/1009231/social-media-facebook-tobacco-secondhand-smoke/>
- MIT Technology Review

President Trump Calls For Section 230 Repeal As Facebook Yanks, Twitter
Tags His COVID Posts
<https://deadline.com/2020/10/president-trump-calls-section-230-repeal-as-facebook-twitter-tag-his-covid-posts-1234592385/>
- Deadline

QAnon still rampant on Twitter despite July takedown
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/03/twitter-banished-worst-qanon-accounts-more-than-93000-remain-site-research-shows/>
- Washington Post

Facebook Keeps Data Secret, Letting Conservative Bias Claims Persist
<https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/918520692/facebook-keeps-data-secret-letting-conservative-bias-claims-persist>
- NPR

Privacy

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
<https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/>
- CNET

Teachers Need Help With Protecting Student Privacy Amid Explosion of Tech
Use
<https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2020/10/privacy_covid_parents_technology.html>
- Education Week

10 actions that will protect people from facial recognition software
<https://www.brookings.edu/research/10-actions-that-will-protect-people-from-facial-recognition-software/>
- Brookings Institute

UCSD Squashes Attempts to Tell State Prisoners About Privacy Breach
<https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/oct/27/ucsd-state-prisoners-privacy-breach/>
- KPBS

A Hacker is threatening to release patients' therapy notes
<https://www.wired.com/story/hacker-threaten-release-therapy-notes-patients/> -
Wired

Diversity

Why Diversity Training has been Suspended at USAID
<https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/oct/27/why-diversity-training-has-been-suspended-at-usaid/>
- KPBS

Their Bosses Asked Them to Lead Diversity Reviews.  Guess Why.
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/business/corporate-diversity-black-employees.html>
- NY Times

As the future of Obamacare heads to the Supreme Court, so do trans rights
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/26/as-the-future-of-obamacare-heads-to-the-supreme-court-so-does-trans-rights>
- The Guardian

Access  & Net Neutrality

AT&T kills DSL, leaves tens of millions of homes without fiber Internet
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/life-in-atts-slow-lane-millions-left-without-fiber-as-company-kills-dsl/>
- Ars Technica

Tricks, Not Treats: OTI Slams FCC’s ‘Unhinged’ October Surprise on Net
Neutrality
<https://yubanet.com/usa/tricks-not-treats-oti-slams-fccs-unhinged-october-surprise-on-net-neutrality/>
- YubaNet

FCC affirms decision to scrap  Obama-era net neutrality rules
<https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/357238/fcc-affirms-net-neutrality-repeal.html>
- Media Post


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Rights, Responsibilities & Reactions is a monthly roundup of Intellectual
Freedom News compiled by the Multnomah County Library Intellectual Freedom
Committee.
We welcome suggestions of articles to include at lib.ifc at multco.us.  In
general, submissions should follow the following criteria: (1) News
articles; (2) Published in the relevant month; (3) Prioritize issues of
either local relevance or national interest.

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