A trend is unfolding in public facilities, including libraries: individuals who arm themselves with video cameras and create "First Amendment audits" in order to record staff violations. How should your library respond?

Really nice policy-development primers.

Step-by-step policy builder.

California's so-called 'bot bill,' which aims to protect users from automated bots on Twitter and other platforms, is noble, flashy, intriguing...and inept.

Virtually everything we do these days is recorded digitally. Like this, share this, pay here — all these actions are stored as data, combined, analyzed and buil

For nearly three decades, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has led the fight to protect people’s digital rights, incubating allied organizations and offering free security tools to nonprofits. Can it continue to uphold its mission? From the Summer 2019 issue.

On FIPPs and why they suck.

Presented to the Mānoa Faculty Senate by the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning (CAPP) for a vote of the full Senate on November 14, 2018, a resolution supporting learning data privacy principles and practices.  Approved by the Mānoa Faculty Senate on November 14, 2018 with 42 votes in sup...

The cannier among you will already have noted – and scarred Linux veterans can definitely attest to the fact – that there’s no mention at all of freedom-from in there. The FSF’s unstated position has always been that anyone who wants to be free from indignities like an opaque contraption of a user experience, buggy drivers and nonexistent vendor support in their software, not to mention the casual sexism and racism of the free software movement itself, well. Those people can go pound sand all the way to the Apple store. (Which is what everyone did, but let’s put that aside for the moment.)

Privacy is not a property right in personal information.  Assigning property rights over personal information to the user and letting the marketplace decide what happens next is a bad idea.

I’ve recently had several conversations with projects about software foundations, so I figured I should type up my thoughts here.

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