This year, the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCSA) has expanded its Data Privacy Day to a week! Data Privacy Day started in 2008 as a North American complement to Data Protection Day in Europe.
The purpose of Data Privacy Week is to help “spread awareness about online privacy and [educate] citizens on how to manage their personal information and keep it secure” and to “ [encourage] businesses to respect data and be more transparent about how they collect and use customer data.”
Category: Privacy Education
Prioritizing Privacy grant, interview with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Kyle M. L. Jones
Interview with the project team from the Prioritizing Privacy IMLS grant (Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Kyle M. L. Jones), an educational program that trains academic librarians to address privacy and related ethical issues.
Privacy Advocacy Guides for Libraries: An interview with Erin Berman and Bonnie Tijerina
The IMLS grant project, ‘Privacy Advocacy Guides for Libraries’, is focused on the creation of a series of guides that focus on providing hands-on techniques for better protecting the privacy of the library as well as the privacy of library users.
Adventures of an eResources Librarian – Thinking About and Teaching Privacy Every Day, Part One
A big part of the job of an Electronic Resources Librarian in a public library is guiding users through how to use our resources – that includes helping them take control of their own privacy.
Foundations of American Privacy
Modern American ideas about privacy are influenced by the first legal article arguing for a right to privacy. How did this article shape privacy law and concepts?