[Air-L] Webinar On Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Surveillance through Digital Library Tools

[Melissa Villa-Nicholas]

Next in the Information Equity webinar series: On Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) Surveillance through Digital Library Tools

With *Sarah Lamdan, Professor of Law at CUNY and Immigrant Defense Project*
*April 8 @12:30 EST*
*Register here : *
https://events.uri.edu/event/on_immigration_and_customs_enforcement_ice_surveillance_through_digital_library_tools?utm_source=urieventsmar25_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=urieventsmar25_2021#.YFz1Fhb3aEf

*CC available *
*Will not be recorded *

Some of our library vendors are also selling peoples' data to law
enforcement surveillance programs, including Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE)'s invasive "big data" policing program. Companies like
Thomson Reuters and RELX Group (formerly Reed Elsevier), are supplying
billions of data points, bits of personal information, updated in real
time, to police as they run our library products and resources.

Putting surveillance companies under the same corporate umbrellas as our
research products raises sticky ethical quandaries. How do we transition
the ethics we apply to offline library collections, paper collections and
library stacks, to our online research platforms? Can we ensure patron
privacy and freedom to research when we rely on data analytics corporations
to license digital content on their third-party platforms? These questions
don't have easy answers in our current digital library systems.

In this conversation, we will explore how our vendors' practices conflict
with library privacy and intellectual freedom standards, and consider how
the relationship between our vendors and law enforcement agencies might
impact our patrons and coworkers.








-- 
Dr. Melissa Villa-Nicholas
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
University of Rhode Island
Pronouns: She/Hers
melissavillanicholas.net