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  • Shareholders Strike Back on Privacy

      As public concern over federal government surveillance of online activity grows, a new wrinkle has been introduced. Shareholders in large communications companies are attempting to force those companies to disclose data about how often they share user data with the U.S. or other governments. According to The New York Times, shareholders at AT&T and…

  • AALL Election News: Congratulations to Keith Ann Stiverson

    Congratulations to CALL member Keith Ann Stiverson on her election to the AALL Executive Board! Keith serves as the Director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law Library and has been very active in both CALL and AALL over the years. She recently served on the Task Force on the Depository Library Program and the Government…

  • September Business Meeting speaker, Randy Picker, interviewed on the Google Book project opinion

    Those of us who attended the September Business Meeting enjoyed Professor Randy Picker’s talk on “The Mediated Book: EBooks and the Digital Library.  Mr. Picker was interviewed Monday night (11.18.13) on Chicago Tonight about Google, Inc.’s recent summary judgment award in the Google Books case (Authors Guild Inc et al v. Google Inc.). The interview…

  • New Congressional Bill Confronts Open-ended Government Surveillance

    The government finally confirmed, after years of denials, that it was collecting our phone records in bulk. But we are told by the President and various spokespersons that since there are very strict rules in place on the uses of such information that abuses are very unlikely. However, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, “The…

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