ALA OIF BLOG
Jonathan Kelley | May 25, 2012

Updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more.

THE HILL
Andrew Feinberg | May 21, 2012

“Father of the Internet” Vint Cerf on Monday warned that Internet freedom is under threat from governments around the world, including the United States.

Cerf, a computer scientist who was instrumental in the Internet’s creation and is now employed by Google as its “Internet evangelist,” said officials in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe are using intellectual property and cybersecurity issues “as an excuse for constraining what we can and can’t do on the ‘net.”

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MSNBC
Bob Sullivan | May 18, 2012

A mother who says her middle-school daughter was forced to let school officials browse the 13-year-old girl’s private Facebook page is speaking out against the practice because, she says, “other parents are scared to talk about it.”

Pam Broviak, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Geneva, Ill., says her daughter was traumatized when the principal of Geneva Middle School South forced the child to log in to her Facebook account, then rummaged through the girl’s private information.

“What a violation of my daughter’s privacy this whole episode was,” Broviak said. The incident took “a huge toll on my daughter, who ended up crying through most of the rest of the day and therefore missed most of her classes. She was embarrassed and very upset.”

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ALA OIF BLOG
Jonathan Kelley | May 18, 2012

Updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more.