Intersect Alert May 17, 2018
Take Action: The Senate Voted to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Now Tell the House to Do the Same “The Senate has voted to restore the 2015 Open Internet Order and reject the FCC’s attempt to gut net...
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Privacy: Victory! Supreme Court Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Cell Phone Tracking “The Supreme Court handed down a landmark opinion on June 22nd in Carpenter v. United States, ruling 5-4 that the...
View ArticleIntersect Alert July 1, 2018
Archives: National Archives updates progress on ICE records disposition “The proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records schedule for records related to detainees held in ICE detention...
View ArticleIntersect Alert July 31, 2018
Archives: Archiving while Black “Among the things 2018 will be remembered for is mainstream culture’s realization that white Americans use the police to challenge black entry into “white” spaces....
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 19, 2018
Research: Invisible Institute launches expanded Chicago police misconduct database “The Chicago Reader: “An expansive new version of the Citizens Police Data Project has been unveiled by south-side...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 26, 2018
Libraries: Technology hasn’t killed public libraries – it’s inspired them to transform and stay relevant “In 2017, archaeologists discovered the ruins of the oldest public library in Cologne, Germany....
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 10, 2018
Privacy Google Notifies People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation “At least dozens of people have received an email from Google informing them that the internet giant responded to a request from...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 8, 2018
Archives Spanish civil servant who had €50,000 salary but failed to do a day’s work for ten years banned from post “A civil servant in the Spanish province of Valencia has been handed a nine-year ban...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 22, 2018
Education Faced with daily barrage of news, college students find it hard to tell what’s real and what’s ‘fake news’ “College students turn to their peers and online versions of trusted newspapers...
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 17, 2018
Search Thousands of Historical California Legislative Publications Digitized and Openly Available Online! “California historical legislative research just got a bit easier. As a result of a...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 24, 2015
Search Finding People Resources and Sites on the Internet “Finding people centric resources and sites on the Internet allows you to find individuals based on a range of objectives: personal (family,...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 4, 2015
Internet Access: FEC to hackers: We’re ready this time if government shuts down Two years ago, when the federal agencies last shut down because Congress failed to fund them, Chinese hackers...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 11, 2015
Privacy: No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans’ Privacy The spread of knowledge about the NSA’s surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 18, 2015
Intellectual Property: Second Circuit Affirms Fair Use in Google Books Case On October 16, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously affirmed the lower court’s fair use in...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 25, 2014
Take Action!: Tell your lawmakers that open access is important to you: FASTR Ensures that Publicly Funded Research Belongs to the Public When taxpayers pay for research, everyone should have access...
View ArticleIntersect Alert November 1, 2014
Privacy Issues: Making Privacy a Reality: The Safe Harbor Judgment and Its Consequences for US Surveillance Reform Earlier this month, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union...
View ArticleIntersect Alert November 16, 2015
International Outlook Hong Kong Bookstore Disappearances Shock Publishing Industry “In a frenetic commercial district of Hong Kong, sandwiched between shops selling vitamins and clothing to tourists,...
View ArticleIntersect Alert November 22, 2015
Open Access Open Access Meets Discoverability: Citations to Articles Posted to Academia.edu “Using matching and regression analyses, we measure the difference in citations between articles posted to...
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Intersect Alert January 3, 2016
Privacy Issues: Measuring Privacy: Using Context to Expose Confounding Variables Past privacy surveys often omit important contextual factors and yield cloudy, potentially misleading results about...
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Free Speech Maryland Bill Would Protect Consumers’ Free Speech from Bad Contracts (H.B. 131) “Should a company be allowed to use its own contractual fine print to take away its customers’ free speech?...
View ArticleIntersect Alert March 6, 2016
Intellectual Property: Why the Rauschenberg Foundation’s easing of copyright restrictions is good for art and journalism Last week, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York announced that it...
View ArticleIntersect Alert March 20, 2016
Freedom of Information: The Foilies 2016: Recognizing the Worst in Government Responses to Public Records Requests Last spring, Shoshana Walter with the Center for Investigative Reporting filed a...
View ArticleIntersect Alert May 8, 2016
Digital History: How Big Data Creates False Confidence If I claimed that Americans have gotten more self-centered lately, you might just chalk me up as a curmudgeon, prone to good-ol’-days whining....
View ArticleIntersect Alert May 22, 2016
Privacy: We know where you live: From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces Researchers at MIT and Oxford University have shown that the location...
View ArticleIntersect Alert May 30, 2016
Freedom of Information: China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works First there was the Berlin Wall. Now there is the Great Firewall of China, not a physical barrier preventing...
View ArticleIntersect Alert July 25, 2016
Search National Transportation Atlas Database “The National Transportation Atlas Database is a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, transportation networks, and...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 14, 2016
Take Action!: Stand Up for Open Access. Stand Up for Diego Diego Gomez is a recent biology graduate from the University of Quindío, a small university in Colombia. His research interests are reptiles...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 28, 2016
Public Policy: The link between health spending and life expectancy: The US is an outlier The graph [in the article] shows the relationship between what a country spends on health per person and life...
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 4, 2016
Public Policy: Pew – Opinions on Gun Policy and the 2016 Campaign “For the past several years, large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans have favored making private gun sales and sales at...
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 19, 2016
Government: Carla Hayden Breaks New Ground as 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, a career librarian who grew up in Chicago and kept Baltimore’s libraries open during last year’s civic unrest, was...
View ArticleIntersect Alert September 26, 2016
Open Data: University May Remove Online Content to Avoid Disability Law The University of California, Berkeley, has announced that it may eliminate free online content rather than comply with a U.S....
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 24, 2016
Privacy Memo to the DOJ: Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy is Worse Than Anyone Thought “If we don’t speak up now, the days when we can walk around with our heads held high without fear of...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 31, 2016
Open Access Search Thousands of Historical Documents from the Nuremberg Trials “The Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized...
View ArticleIntersect Alert November 6, 2016
Public Policy: Americans with Disabilities Act Lawsuits Up 28 Percent in FY 2016 The latest available data from the federal courts show that fiscal year 2016 set a new record for litigation under the...
View ArticleIntersect Alert December 20, 2016
Open Access: Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access Germany’s DEAL project, which includes over 60 major research institutions, has...
View ArticleIntersect Alert April 4, 2017
Privacy: Congress Moves to Strike Internet Privacy Rules From Obama Era Republican senators moved Thursday to dismantle landmark internet privacy protections for consumers in the first decisive...
View ArticleIntersect Alert April 10, 2017
Open-Access How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing “Open-access advocates have had several successes in the past few weeks. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation started its own...
View ArticleIntersect Alert May 7, 2017
Take Action: California: Let’s End Unchecked Police Surveillance All surveillance is political. Nowhere is this more evident than on the local level when law enforcement acquires new surveillance...
View ArticleIntersect Alert May 28, 2017
Publishing: Cheap books, high price: why Amazon.com’s ‘one-click’ sales can cost authors dear It is a hard sell: the idea that cheaper books might be a bad thing. But an adjustment to how Amazon...
View ArticleIntersect Alert June 28, 2017
Government Data: Tweets of Congress, tweets of Trump archived and downloadable in bulk The recently-launched Tweets Of Congress is collecting and publishing daily archives of tweets by congressional...
View ArticleIntersect Alert August 27, 2017
Take Action!: Donate to Texas Diaper Bank There’s a lot of places to donate to for Harvey relief. I’m sure you can find a worthy entity. I like this: Texas Diaper Bank. You may be interested to read...
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Intersect Alert September 3, 2017
Take Action: Trump Likely to End DACA – Here’s What You Can Do Now Politico broke the news earlier today that President Donald Trump has decided to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 22, 2017
Privacy New Law bans California Employers from Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary “California employers can no longer ask job applicants about their prior salary and — if applicants ask — must give...
View ArticleIntersect Alert October 30, 2017
Archives National Archives Releases JFK Assassination Records “The National Archives released 2,891 records on Thursday related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that are subject to the...
View ArticleIntersect Alert January 8, 2018
Search Military Service Records, Awards, and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources “This guide provides information on locating military unit histories and individual service records of...
View ArticleIntersect Alert March 26, 2018
Professional Development: Developing Good Privacy Policies, a free LITA webinar “Writing policies can be exciting when it’s something you care about–and librarians care about privacy. This webinar will...
View ArticleIntersect Alert April 2, 2018
Professional Development: Webinar: Deborah Schmidle discusses the Certificate in Library Leadership and Management “Join us for a webinar on April 10th, in which Deborah Schmidle discusses her...
View ArticleIntersect Alert April 9, 2018
Libraries: Susan B. Anthony Papers now online at Library of Congress “The papers of reformer and suffragist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) span the period 1846-1934 with the bulk of the material dating...
View ArticleIntersect Alert April 16, 2018
Libraries: Making Space for Libraries on Capitol Hill During National Library Week “While libraries across the country are celebrating National Library Week (April 9–13), the American Library...
View ArticleIntersect Alert April 23, 2018
Archives: Papers of Benjamin Franklin Now Online “The papers of American scientist, statesman and diplomat Benjamin Franklin have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the...
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