LFI Course Materials 4/Week four

Week 4: Privacy rights, ethics, and philosophy

• Real time lecture: August 13th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892

Readings

https://thenewinquiry.com/privacy-for-whom/ https://www.academia.edu/2395122/Video_Surveillance_in_Public_Libraries_a_Case_of_Unintended_Consequences https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/47307/132_ready.pdf Coronavirus and escalating surveillance: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/technology/coronavirus-surveillance-tracking-privacy.html The ACLU’s resources on internet privacy (read through some of the subtopics, reports, blogs, and so on) https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/internet-privacy EFF’s take on how librarians should be protecting privacy rights in the library: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/librarians-act-now-protect-your-users-its-too-late Library records privacy laws by state: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/statelaws

Tested positive for coronavirus? Health workers may share your address with police. Fever detection cameras to fight the pandemic? Experts say they don't work. Privacy cannot be a casualty of the coronavirus

We saw NSO's Covid-19 software in action, and privacy experts are worried https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epg9jm/nso-covid-19-surveillance-tech-software-tracking-infected-privacy-experts-worried Privacy experts say responsible coronavirus surveillance is possible: https://theintercept.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-covid-19-surveillance-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

Guest lecturer

Kade Crockford, ACLU of Massachusetts