[Libs-Or] Rights, Responsibilities and Reactions - Intellectual Freedom News - January 2019

[Lisa Taylor]

January 2019


Rights, Responsibilities and Reactions - Intellectual Freedom News




Censorship

Scappoose schools continue with 'George' in OBOB reading competition
<https://pamplinmedia.com/scs/83-news/417129-319629-scappoose-schools-continue-with-george-in-obob-reading-competition>
Columbia
County Spotlight

Banning a book in the name of 'true academic freedom'
<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/15/franciscan-u-bans-book-portrays-virgin-mary-sexual-and-ousts-department-chair-who>
 Inside Higher Ed

Fun Home removed without review in NJ high school Library
<http://cbldf.org/2019/01/fun-home-removed-without-review-in-nj-high-school-library/>
 CLBDF

Armed man disrupts Houston Library during drag queen storytime
<http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2019/01/armed-man-disrupts-houston-library-during-drag-queen-storytime/>
Out
Smart

Privacy

Everything you need to know about Facebook, Google’s app scandal
<https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/facebook-google-scandal/> TechCrunch

Making face recognition less biased doesn’t make it less scary
<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612846/making-face-recognition-less-biased-doesnt-make-it-less-scary/>
MIT
Technology Review

The Cybersecurity 202:  High schoolers must start training for security
jobs to fill the talent gap, professors say
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/01/11/the-cybersecurity-202-high-schoolers-must-start-training-for-security-jobs-to-fill-the-talent-gap-professors-say/5c3786921b326b66fc5a1c05/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.92da35bb5a0f>
Washington
Post

Trying to cut tech giants out of your life is even harder than you think
<https://www.marketplace.org/2019/01/30/tech/trying-cut-tech-giants-out-your-life-even-harder-you-think>
Marketplace

Warning! Everything is going deep: 'The age of surveillance capitalism'
(opinion) <https://nyti.ms/2Sc1daO> New York Times

One man's obsessive fight to reclaim his Cambridge Analytica data
<https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/?>
Wired

Nothing can stop Google. DuckDuckGo is trying anyway
<https://medium.com/s/story/nothing-can-stop-google-duckduckgo-is-trying-anyway-718eb7391423>
Medium

Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality repeal at stake as key court case starts
<https://nyti.ms/2DQhj1P> New York Times

Diversity

There is a massive class and race-based chasm in digital activism
<http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/01/14/there-is-a-massive-class-and-race-based-chasm-in-digital-activism/>
 LSE US Centre

Around the Web

The hunt for Nazi loot sitting on library shelves <https://nyti.ms/2H9YVo0> New
York Times

Drag queen storytime: Is listening to a drag queen read a story dangerous
for a child?
<https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-the-erotic-code/201901/drag-queen-storytime-children>
 Psychology Today



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*Lisa Taylor*
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Multnomah County Library
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