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The recent cyber attacks at Penn State have put personal information of 18,000 students in the hands of hackers. What should universities do to protect students’ privacy?
Librarians have long understood that to provide access to knowledge it is crucial to protect their patrons' privacy. Books can provide information that is deeply unpopular. As a result, local
What are you reading? Do you pay your library fines?
Figure 1 Identifying customers that visit multiple retail locations for the same store(Source: Fast Company, “Here’s What Brick-And-Mortar Stores See When They Track You”) Last week, the FTC
"In The Trial, the problem is not inhibited behavior but rather a suffocating powerlessness and vulnerability created by the court system's use of personal data and its denial to the protagonist of any knowledge of or participation in the process. The harms are bureaucratic ones—indifference, error, abuse, frustration, and lack of transparency and accountability."
A recent query to the "LibLicense" listserv asked: Is there any kind of organization that has put together a website or list of database...
"FIPPs" a useful idea here.
A panel at Digital Book World last week offered several insights on how ebook platforms are analyzing user data and what they have discovered.