In celebration of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age, I've written the following guest post for the CPW blog: Toward a set of Best Practices…
Tag: Intellectual Privacy
How I am Celebrating Choose Privacy Week 2015
Today marks the start of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative (always May 1-7) of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. Along with Center for Information Policy Research, I've been a proud…
Joining NISO Project on Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications, has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a Consensus Framework to…
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New Publications on Privacy and Library 2.0
I'm pleased to announce two recent publications of my work exploring the implications of Library 2.0 platforms and applications for patron privacy. These represent early thinking on this complex relationship between privacy and web-based delivery of library services, and I intend…
Chronicle: “As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy”
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an excellent article by Marc Parry on “As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy," noting that as libraries are beginning to collect and share patron data…
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New Survey Confirms Librarians’ Commitment to Protecting Privacy Rights
In celebration of Choose Privacy Week, the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom has released preliminary findings from a new survey on "Librarian Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Informational Privacy" that I conducted on their behalf with generous support from the…
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iConference 2012: The ethical (re)design of the Google Books project
I'm currently in Toronto, Canada for iConference 2012, presented by the iSchools organization, a worldwide collective of 33 Information Schools. The theme of the conference is "Culture-Design-Society", and I will be presenting a paper titled "The ethical (re)design of the…
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Librarians: Please contribute to a new survey about librarians and privacy
With generous support from the Open Society Foundation, I've been working with the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom to help assess privacy attitudes and practices of librarians and related information professionals, and we just launched our first survey for librarians.
ALA Choose Privacy Week Webinar: Youth Privacy Attitudes
In preparation for Choose Privacy Week, the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom and American Libraries magazine hosted a webinar today, featuring the following panel of contributors: Angela Maycock, assistant director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy…
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Event: Emerging Privacy and Ethical Challenges for Libraries in the 2.0 Era
From May 2 through May 8, 2010, libraries across the nation will celebrate Choose Privacy Week for the first time. This American Library Association campaign invites library professionals, users, and friends into a national conversation about privacy rights in a…
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