Over at the Center for Information Policy Research, we've posted the final report for the IMLS-funded project “Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies: Field guides, Convenings, and Conversations” which I've been working on over the past year with Bonnie Tijerina at Data & Society. From…
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Posts on Facebook and Privacy (2006-2010)
Since 2006, two years after Facebook's launch and right about when I joined the platform, I've been posting on this blog (at least as long as blogging was a thing) about numerous privacy concerns related to the social network.Posts include…
Call for Papers: “Privacy” Issue of Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (Spring 2017)
[UDPATE: The "Privacy" special issue has now been published. Details here.] I'm pleased to announce I am the guest editor for the Spring 2017 issue of the American Library Association's Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy (JIFP). The issue's theme is…
NSF Grant: Mapping Privacy and Surveillance Dynamics in Emerging Mobile Ecosystems: Practices and Contexts in the Netherlands and US
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded an NSF EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to pursue a research collaboration with Dr. Jessica Vitak (University of Maryland) and Drs. Jason Pridmore and Daniel Trottier (Erasmus University) on “Mapping…
Choose Privacy Week 2016 Webinar: Raising Privacy Awareness in Your Library and in Your Community
I’m once again thrilled to be contributing to an American Library Association (ALA) webinar on "Raising Privacy Awareness in Your Library and in Your Community" in preparation for Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7, 2016). Details and my slides on my contribution on "Sparking Privacy…
Joining NISO-RDA Working Group on Privacy Implications of Research Data Sets
I'm excited to join (another) NISO project, in partnership with the Research Data Alliance, focusing on the privacy implications of shared research data. I'll be joining Todd Carpenter (NISO) and Bonnie Tijerina as co-chairs leading this effort. The RDA/NISO Privacy Implications of…
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Choose Privacy Week 2015: Toward a set of Best Practices to Protect Patron Privacy in Library 2.0
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…
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 Project on Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Libraries (and some aftermath)
This week, at the Center for Information Policy Research, I launched a new project on Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Libraries: Public libraries are increasingly turning to cloud computing solutions to satisfy their technological needs in order to best…
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