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When libraries become medical screeners: User health data and library privacy

May 13, 2020 May 8, 2020 By Becky Yoose

By: Becky Yoose What will your public library do when you reopen your doors? Some libraries are exploring phased reopening, starting with curbside or no-contact service outside the physical building. Others are investigating what reopening the physical building to library

When libraries become medical screeners: User health data and library privacy

Choose Privacy Week 2018: A Privacy Bookshelf

April 22, 2020 May 1, 2018 By OIF staff 1 Comment on Choose Privacy Week 2018: A Privacy Bookshelf

A selection of books and readings on privacy, Big Data, and libraries for Choose Privacy Week and beyond.

It’s now or (almost) never for real NSA reform; contacting Congress today critical!

November 10, 2020 November 17, 2014 By OIF staff

Courtesy of the ALA Washington Office’s District Dispatch blog: It was mid-summer when Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the outgoing Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, answered the House of Representative’s passage of an unacceptably weak version of the USA FREEDOM

It’s now or (almost) never for real NSA reform; contacting Congress today critical!

Observing Choose Privacy Week 2013

April 22, 2020 April 30, 2013 By OIF staff

Tomorrow, May 1, begins our annual observance of Choose Privacy Week. It’s an event that invites everyone to visit their local library and learn more about the importance of protecting your privacy rights in an age of pervasive surveillance. During

Observing Choose Privacy Week 2013

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Recent Voices for Privacy

  • Book review of ‘Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care’ Virginia Dressler

    “Data, I’ve found, is becoming like the weather; it’s something that almost anyone can talk about.” Cyber Privacy by April Falcon Doss is a timely title on so many key issues around data privacy in the online world– And Doss is well-positioned to write on this topic, with her thirteen years working at the NSA and later working in a private sector practice focusing on cyber-security and privacy issues. I found this title to be a thoughtful and well-written perspective, primarily centered on the U.S.

  • Libraries (and Archives) as Information Fiduciaries? Part Three Becky Yoose

    Welcome back to the third installment of the information fiduciaries and libraries series!

  • Review of ‘Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society’ by Firmin Debrabander Virginia Dressler

    Review of ‘Life After Privacy: Reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society’ by Firmin Debrabander.

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