Computers & Academic Freedom
This is the Computers & Academic Freedom Archive. CAF is a volunteer-maintained project given a home on the Net by EFF. It is not an official EFF project, and files contained in this archive do not necessarily represent the views or positions of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Files in this Archive
- abstracts [567k]
- Computers and Academic Freedom News (CAF-News) -- Abstracts.
These are abstracts to the Computers and Academic Freedom News
(CAF-news) for issues before April 11, 1993.
- academic_porn_conference
- Excerpts from a newspaper story about an
academic porn conference
- anonymity
- This article is an excerpt from an issue of FIDONEWS on individual
privacy and the use of handles. It accepts the need of a system
operator to know the name of a user; but suggests that the use of a
handle is analogous to a request to withhold the name in a letter to
the editor. The article concludes with a set of guidelines for
preserving the right to be anonymous.
- banned.1991
- A list of computer material that was banned at universities
during (or before) 1991. It summarizes incidents and policies at
Ohio State U., the U. of Illinois (two campuses), Case Western U.,
Boston U., U. of Waterloo, U. of Toledo, Western Washington U.,
Iowa State U., Pennsylvania State U., U. of Texas, U. of Newcastle,
James Madison U., U. of Wisconsin, and others.
- banned.1992
- A list of computer material that was banned or challenged in
academia in 1992
- banned.1992.original
- The first posted version of the list of computer
material that was banned or challenged in academia in 1992.
- caf
- A description of the comp-academic-freedom-talk mailing list. It is a
free-forum for the discussion of questions such as: How should
general principles of academic freedom (such as freedom of
expression, freedom to read, due process, and privacy) be applied to
university computers and networks? How are these principles
actually being applied? How can the principles of academic
freedom as applied to computers and networks be defended?
- cfpii.pointer
- On line Proceedings for "Computers, Freedom and Privacy
II" are available to those on the Internet. A WAIS database contains
the ASCII text of the proceedings courtesy of the ACM.
- filters.email
- How Unix users can filter out harassing email by themselves
- k12.networks.survey
- Results of a survey by EDUCOM and IBM on the status of
computer networking in K12 education.
- reg2rights
- History of student regulations at the University of Illinois
from 1904 to present. Shows how policies evolve.
Subdirectories in This Archive
- academic/
- This is an on-line collection of general academic freedom
statements.
- batch/
- This is a directory of notes that have been sent over the
comp-academic-freedom mailing list. Each file is a list of one
week's notes (in batch form). Also, see "news".
- books/
- This is a directory of book references related to Computers and
Academic Freedom or mentioned in the CAF discussion. The file
books/README is a bibliography.
- cases/
- This is an on-line collection of information about specific computers
and academic freedom cases. File README is a detailed description of
the items in the directory.
- civics/
- Directory of general documents related to government. It
includes the U.S. Constitution and (part of the) Canadian
constitution and mailing addresses for U.S. Senators and
Representatives.
- civil-liberty/
- This is an on-line collection of civil liberty
statements. It includes Briefing Papers from the American Civil
Liberties Union. (The ACLU material is made available by
permission of the American Civil Liberties Union)
- faq/
- An archive of frequently asked questions. Each FAQ file includes
the question, an answer, and references to additional on-line
material. Disclaimer: The answers are generally not written by
lawyers and are not authoritative. Each answer is the opinion of its
author.
- law/
- This is an on-line collection of law related to computers and academic
freedom. It includes both case law and legislation.
- library/
- This is an on-line collection of library policy statements. It
includes the American Library Association's Freedom To Read
statement and the ALA Library Bill of Rights.
- news/
- This is a directory of all issues of the Computers and Academic
Freedom News. A full list of abstracts is available in file
"abstracts". The special best-of-the-month issues are named with
their month, for example, "June"
- policies/
- This is a collection of the computer policies of many schools and
networks. The collection also includes critiques of some of the
policies.
- statements/
- This is an on-line collection of computers and academic freedom
statements. It includes the unofficial, draft "Statement on
Computers and Academic Freedom". File README is a detailed
description of the items in the directory.
Links to Related Off-Site Resources
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Information Ethics
- An academic website that explores ethics in the
information age.
