Labortech '08 panel

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organizing for LaborTech 2008 conference

sunday December 7, 2008, 2:15 - 3:45pm

Working title: Information tools for the labor movement: libraries, privacy, & free resources

libraries and privacy ( Eli 20min)
- Libraries, Social Networking and Privacy
  - What is Privacy? “THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE” - Louis Brandeis
- From the Outside in: Who Can Gain Access to Your Records
  - Law Enforcement
    - Wiretapping - Phones, Cell Phones, Internet
    - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
    - Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act
  - Employers
    - Fact Sheet on Workplace Privacy
    - Good News Out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
    - The Other Side of the Pendulum:
      - The Supreme Court and the Third Circuit afford the speech of public employees -- like public school teachers -- First Amendment protection if their speech relates to matters of public concern: So long as employees are speaking as citizens about matters of public concern, they must face only those speech restrictions that are necessary for their employers to operate efficiently and effectively. Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410, 411 (2006)
- From the Inside Out: Who Can See What You Post Online
- Threshold Issues:
  - Who Sees Your Information
  - Who Controls your Information
  - Are the Answers to the Questions Above Good Enough?
    - Two Stories about MySpace:
      - The Lori Drew Case
      - The Stacey Snyder Case
- What You Can Do
  - Keep in Mind How Sticky and Easy to Find Your Info May Be
  - Use Privacy Controls When Practical
    - Always Easier to Make Private Info Public than to Make Public Info Private
  - When Possible, Pick Social Networking Apps That Support Your Privacy
  - Ask For More/Better Privacy Filters and Features on the Platforms You Do Use
Independent libraries and services: (James and Shannon 20min)
- radical reference (librarians working collaboratively)
  - Background/history of radical reference
  - radical reference as an open-source organization
  - successes and challenges of a virtual community
  - Background articles on Radical Reference
- Holt Labor Library: Shannon Sheppard. [1]
- List of Alternative libraries

resources of interest (James, Shannon and Eli 15min)

Ideas to explore:
- Commodification of information
- Googlization of everything (yes that's the name of a blog & book-in-progress by Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Creative commons, copyright and "intellectual property" on the internet
- Privacy on the internet (Here's a hint: make sure you use scroogle INSTEAD of google for anonymous Web search, and Tor for anonymous surfing!)

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 ***Law Enforcement
 ****Wiretapping - Phones, Cell Phones, Internet
-**** [http://www.eff.org/issues/calea "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)"]
+**** [http://www.eff.org/issues/calea Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)]
-****[http://www.aclu.org/safefree/resources/17343res20031114.html "Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act"]
+****[http://www.aclu.org/safefree/resources/17343res20031114.html Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act]
 ***Employers
+****[http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs7-work.htm Fact Sheet on Workplace Privacy]
+****[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080620-x-rated-sms-case-gives-employees-some-privacy-guarantees.html Good News Out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals]
+****The Other Side of the Pendulum:
+*****The Supreme Court and the Third Circuit afford the speech of public employees -- like public school teachers -- First Amendment protection if their speech relates to matters of public concern: So long as employees are speaking as citizens about matters of public concern, they must face only those speech restrictions that are necessary for their employers to operate efficiently and effectively.  Garcetti v. Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410, 411 (2006)
 **From the Inside Out: Who Can See What You Post Online
 **Threshold Issues:
 ***Are the Answers to the Questions Above Good Enough?
 ****Two Stories about MySpace:
-****[http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/lori-drew-pla-5.html "The Lori Drew Case"]
+*****[http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/11/lori-drew-pla-5.html The Lori Drew Case]
-****[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/12/court_rules_against_teacher_in.html?nav=rss_blog "The Stacey Snyder Case"]
+*****[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/12/court_rules_against_teacher_in.html?nav=rss_blog The Stacey Snyder Case]
+**What You Can Do
+***Keep in Mind How Sticky and Easy to Find Your Info May Be
+***Use Privacy Controls When Practical
+****Always Easier to Make Private Info Public than to Make Public Info Private
+***When Possible, Pick Social Networking Apps That Support Your Privacy
+***Ask For More/Better Privacy Filters and Features on the Platforms You Do Use
 * Independent libraries and services: (James and Shannon 20min)
 ** [http://radicalreference.info radical reference] (librarians working collaboratively)
 ** [http://laborsta.ilo.org/ Laborsta: Labor statistics from International Labor Organization (ILO)]
 ** [http://data.un.org UNdata]
+** [http://www.opencongress.org/ Open Congress - track bills, votes, congress critters]
+** [http://www.everyblock.com/ Every Block - media, demographic and governmental data at the local level, block by block]

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