Featured
Librarian sues Equifax over 2017 data breach, wins $600 | Krebs on Security
In a Big Data World, Scholars Need New Guidelines for Research | Scientific American
Government Surveillance
The administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel keeps monitoring protesters | ProPublica
- Can 30,000 Cameras Help Solve Chicago’s Crime Problem? | New York Times
- In Newark, Police Cameras, and the Internet, Watch You | New York Times
‘Surveillance society’: has technology at the US-Mexico border gone too far? | The Guardian
US Government’s biometric database worries privacy advocates | Naked Security
Corporate Surveillance
Facebook let select companies have “special access” to user data, per report | Ars Technica
User Agreements Are Betraying You | Medium
Here’s what a privacy policy that’s easy to understand could look like | The Conversation
Apple can’t protect you from data trackers forever. No one can | C|Net
The Three Major Forms of Surveillance on Facebook | Siva Vaidhyanthan, Slate
Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy? | The New Yorker
The privacy conundrum: What will you give up to protect your identity? | Forbes
Facebook Tells Senate It Started a Privacy Design Lab Called TTC | Bloomberg
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
Facebook’s policies on teens should be probed by FTC, child advocacy group says | USA Today
Why the recent Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data ‘breach’ matters for students | Brookings Institution
Trump’s Education Department steps up to defend student privacy | The Hill (Opinion)
Encryption and Data Security
Proposed ENCRYPT Bill to Create National Data Encryption Rules | eNews
Legislators Reintroduce Pro-Encryption Bills After FBI Destroys Its Own ‘Going Dark’ Narrative | TechDirt
Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Crack Devices | The New York Times
Are any encrypted messaging apps fail-safe? Subjects of Mueller’s investigation are about to find out. | Washington Post
The Blockchain: What It Is and How It Can Benefit Libraries (Part Two) | OIF Blog
Law and Regulation
The battle over California privacy ballot initiative looms large in 2018 | Government Technology
Libraries and Privacy
Library Freedom Project introduces inaugural cohort | OIF Blog