The ILS without patron data: open questions
In my prior two posts, I outlined a strategy to minimize personally identifiable information in library automation systems (idea overview, impact on FOLIO). ...
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The ILS without patron data: a thought experiment realized with FOLIO
In the previous blog post, I outlined the concept of a library system with no personally identifiable information as a way to safeguard a patron’s right to p...
The ILS without patron data: a thought experiment
Library systems hold significant information about patrons, including their search and reading histories. For librarians, ensuring the privacy and confident...
Issue 92: Privacy Stories From 2014 Still Echo Today
Back again. Thanks for the comments on the return of the newsletter. I’ve heard that Microsoft Outlook isn’t playing nice with my email theme. (It also is...
Issue 86: Tracking Media Provenance, Digital Classroom Surveillance, Don’t Pixelate to Redact, Android In-App Advertising
I’ve deleted what I originally had here as newsletter-opening-banter. These are serious times. I think the world has radically changed overnight, and roughly...
Issue 85: Privacy-busting Journal Article Fingerprints, Fraud in NFTs, Improve Your Life
The middle of February already. Time is flying; I hope you are having fun. The threads this week: Privacy-busting Fingerprints in Journal Articles Fr...
What EDUCAUSE’s 2022 Top 10 IT Issues Mean for Libraries
Last month, EDUCAUSE published its Top 10 IT Issues for 2022 with the subtitle “The Higher Education We Deserve”. To reach the top 10, EDUCAUSE members were ...
On the Code4Lib Journal’s Two Proposed Metrics article
Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) editor here. Becky Yoose’s Twitter thread has stirred up a great deal of attention to an article published yesterday. This post has m...
Privacy in the Context of Content Platforms and Discovery Tools
These are the presentation notes for the Privacy in the Context of Content Platforms and Discovery Tools presentation during the NISO Information Freedom, Et...
The Who, What, When, Where and Why of Library Discovery (text as intended for presentation)
[caption id="attachment_KkOCeAtKHIc" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Me and my Jester's Cap"] Closing out #nisoforum w Peter Murray as disruptive te...
Issue 78: Battles over strong encryption, IPv4 addresses exhausted while IPv6 surges
Two articles in each of two threads this week: If Strong Encryption is Outlawed… Allocations of IPv4 Internet Addresses Now Restricted; It’s a Good Thi...
Thursday Threads: Let’s Encrypt is coming, Businesses want you coming to the office, OR2015 Summary
Selected Tweets from “Indexing Repositories” talk by Anurag Archarya, project lead on Google Scholar, 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Jun...
Thursday Threads: Advertising and Privacy, Giving Away Linux, A View of the Future
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> In just a few weeks there will be a g...
Can Google’s New “My Account” Page be a Model for Libraries?
One of the things discussed in the NISO patron privacy conference calls has been the need for transparency with patrons about what information is being gathe...
My View of the NISO Patron Privacy Working Group
<img src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/368912557_2fc44d3709_m.jpg" alt=""Privacy Please" by Josh Hallett" width="240" height="161" class="alignright size-f...
Thursday Threads: Man Photocopies Ebook, Google AutoAwesomes Photos, Librarians Called to HTTPS
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> In this week's threads: a protest --...
Advancing Patron Privacy on Vendor Systems with a Shared Understanding
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a short talk at the second virtual meeting of the NISO effort to reach a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Pr...
Thursday Threads: Library RFP Registry, Transformed Libraries talk at IMLSfocus, DIY VPN
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Welcome spring in the northern hemisp...
Thursday Threads: All about online privacy, or lack thereof
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Are you paranoid yet? Are you worrie...
Thursday Threads: Patron Privacy on Library Sites, Communicating with Developers, Kuali Continued
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> In the DLTJ Thursday Threads this wee...
Thursday Threads: Password Managers, DRM coming to the Browser, Personal Data Brokers
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner It is a security/privacy edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. F...
Thursday Threads: Windows XP end-of-life, Maturing open source models, Trashcans that track you
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Three groups of stories in this long-...
“The Challenges of User Consent” – Handling Shibboleth User Attributes
One of the great things about the Shibboleth inter-institution single sign-on software package is the ability for the Identity Provider to limit how much a S...
Encryption of Patron Data in Modern Integrated Library Systems
"How much effort do you want to spend securing your computer systems? Well, how much do you not want to be in front of a reporter's microphone if a security...
Full Text of ARL SPEC Kit 278 on Library Patron Privacy Now Online
Almost a decade ago while at the University of Connecticut I conducted a survey of ARL libraries on their patron privacy practices. The full text of that su...
Views on Sharing (or, What Do We Want From OCLC?)
Within the span of a recent week we've had two views of the OCLC cooperative. In one we have a proposition that OCLC has gone astray from its core roots and...
Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Searc...
Clay Shirky on the Need for Better Information Filters
Last month, Clay Shirky gave a presentation with the title "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure" at the Web 2.0 Expo. ((Web 2.0 Expo, co-pro...
“Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide”
The title of this post is the same as the report it describes, Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide [PDF]. It was annou...
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. But we can tell if you are a major news organization or corporation.
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank As the saying, now a part of Internet lore, goes: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're...