Our Rights

Our Rights
Author: David J. Bodenhamer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195325672

"This boxed set contains classroom resources to help America's educators teach about the most important documents in U.S. history"--Box

How Rights Went Wrong

How Rights Went Wrong
Author: Jamal Greene
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2021
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1328518116

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.

Democratizing Our Data

Democratizing Our Data
Author: Julia Lane
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262542749

A wake-up call for America to create a new framework for democratizing data. Public data are foundational to our democratic system. People need consistently high-quality information from trustworthy sources. In the new economy, wealth is generated by access to data; government's job is to democratize the data playing field. Yet data produced by the American government are getting worse and costing more. In Democratizing Our Data, Julia Lane argues that good data are essential for democracy. Her book is a wake-up call to America to fix its broken public data system.

Waiving Our Rights

Waiving Our Rights
Author: Orlan Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780739188118

The purpose of Waiving Our Rights: The Personal Data Collection Complex and its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties is to alert Americans to the erosion of our fundamental rights, and what to do about that. This book is not just about the right to privacy anymore.

A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom

A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom
Author: Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF)
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838913253

Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this volume includes documents which discuss such foundational issues as The Library Bill of RightsProtecting the freedom to readALA’s Code of EthicsHow to respond to challenges and concerns about library resourcesMinors and internet activityMeeting rooms, bulletin boards, and exhibitsCopyrightPrivacy, including the retention of library usage records

The Right to Privacy

The Right to Privacy
Author: Samuel D. Brandeis, Louis D. Warren
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732645487

Reproduction of the original: The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. Warren, Louis D. Brandeis