Day archives: February 9th, 2022

The Kid Surveillance Complex Locks Parents in a Trap

Wired: “…From smartphones to schools to entertainment, parents can track the near totality of their children’s lives with ease. Share Location features come out of the box with any smartphone, and extremely popular apps like Life360 or Bark offer “enhanced” features such as driving monitoring and camera roll scanning for a small price. Unsurprisingly, the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Records, Education, Internet, Privacy

Librarian’s lament: Digital books are not fireproof

ZDNet – Chris Freeland is a librarian and Director of the Internet Archive’s Open Libraries program: “The disturbing trend of school boards and lawmakers banning books from libraries and public schools is accelerating across the country. In response, Jason Perlow made a strong case last week for what he calls a “Freedom Archive,” a digital repository of …

Subjects: Censorship, Digital Rights, Education, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Can a Congressional Committee Subpoena Members of Congress?

LawFare: “As part of its investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the Jan. 6 committee has requested information and testimony from several sitting members of the House of Representatives.  The committee has also requested that telecommunications companies preserve the phone records of …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

Holocaust Survivor Lists Digitized for the First Time

UMass Amherst: “Hundreds of pages with the names of Holocaust survivors relocated to Displaced Persons Camps in Austria and Germany have now been reprinted and digitized. The extensive lists have never been available together, and the original volumes exist in only a few libraries worldwide. Thanks to a collaboration of the Robert S. Cox Special …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

TikTok shares your data more than any other social media app — and it’s unclear where it goes, study says

CNBC: “Two of your social media apps could be collecting a lot of data on you — and you might not like what one of them is doing with it. That’s according to a recent study, published last month by mobile marketing company URL Genius, which found that YouTube and TikTok track users’ personal data …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

Archives Found Possible Classified Material in Boxes Returned by Trump

The New York Times: “The National Archives consulted with the Justice Department about the discovery after the former president sent back documents that he had improperly taken from the White House when he left office… The National Archives and Records Administration discovered what it believed was classified information in documents Donald J. Trump had taken …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research