LFI Course Materials 4/Week four
Contents
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
Overview
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
Guest lecturer
Kade Crockford, ACLU of Massachusetts
