Featured:
Dewey Decibel Podcast: Protecting our privacy | American Libraries
Government Surveillance
In Trump’s America, Black Lives Matter activists grow wary of their smartphones | Washington Post
Calling on the U.S. Congress to learn about surveillance. From Batman. | Access Now
New Social Media Screening for U.S. Visitors Goes Into Effect | Fortune
Secret court rebukes NSA for 5-year illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens | Miami Herald
The Fourth Circuit Remands Wikimedia’s Suit Against the NSA Back to District Court | Lawfare Blog
The UK government is going to pressure internet companies to let it read people’s private messages | The Independent
Corporate Surveillance
Google Now Tracks Your Credit Card Purchases and Connects Them to Your Online Profile | MIT Technology Review
Republicans want to let robocallers spam your voicemail | Washington Post
Libraries and Privacy
Readium’s New Licensed Content Protection May Result in Better Reader Privacy | Go To Hellman Blog
Student Privacy / Filtering
Here’s the catch: District relies on filters to monitor content students accessing on web | The Republic
Privacy Self-Defense
Don’t Expose Yourself: A Guide to Online Privacy | Wall Street Journal
7 in 10 Smartphone Apps Share Your Data with Third-Party Services | Scientific American
The Lumen Privacy Monitor, a free Android app, analyzes the traffic apps send out and allows the user to see which applications and online services actively harvest personal data.
Seven reasons parents should care about kids and online privacy | Salon.com
Broadband Privacy
Encryption / Scholarship
Analyzing Accessibility of Wikipedia Projects Around the World | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Study finds there was less censorship of Wikipedia after shift to HTTPS-only content
International/Right to Privacy
Court: Dead daughter’s parents have no right to access her Facebook account | Ars Technica
This Week in Data Breaches
OneLogin suffers breach—customer data said to be exposed, decrypted | Ars Technica
University of Alaska: thousands affected by data breach, including names, social security numbers | KTUU
DATA BREACH: Kmart says customer credit card information hacked | Dayton Daily News
What to do if you ate at Chipotle during the massive data breach | WPTV.com