Privacy and markets
Nanette Perez of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom sent out a link to this AOL study on web users’ behavior and statements regarding data privacy. The study finds, unsurprisingly, that … Read more Privacy and markets
Category: Privacy
OIF’s Privacy Revolution
ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom is engaged in a research project about privacy and libraries. There is a survey to fill out at privacyrevolution.org. I’m not sure where they’re going … Read more OIF’s Privacy Revolution
Crowds
On this May Day I want to link you to a book (online) that I’m putting out there as a symbol of Library Juice’s opposition within librarianship and the blogosphere: … Read more Crowds
Get your medical records online, courtesy of Google and Microsoft
Google and Microsoft have both been working on new services to provide access to medical records. Pretty exciting huh? Microsoft’s thing is HealthVault and Google’s is Google Health. I’m sure … Read more Get your medical records online, courtesy of Google and Microsoft
First Monday Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Michael Zimmer is the guest editor for the just released special issue of the open access journal First Monday: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0. Here is the table of contents: … Read more First Monday Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
Laser printer privacy concern
In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information. That means that without … Read more Laser printer privacy concern
Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience is an important new book by James B. Rule, who also wrote an influential … Read more Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
Two articles of interest from The Nation
First, Jeffrey Chester’s Google and Data-Seizure, about the significance of Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick, the internet marketing and company whose business is based on showing banner ads and tracking users’ … Read more Two articles of interest from The Nation
Some attention to library privacy
Is our society gradually forgetting the value of privacy, in libraries and elsewhere? Michael Zimmer, who writes on media ecology, technology, and privacy, gives some attention to online privacy in … Read more Some attention to library privacy
New from LJP: Library Juice Concentrate
Library Juice Concentrate Edited by Rory Litwin Preface by Kathleen de la Peña McCook Price: $25.00 ISBN-10: 0-9778617-3-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-9778617-3-6 6″ by 9″ Published: December 2006 Library Juice Concentrate is … Read more New from LJP: Library Juice Concentrate
Privacy, Libraries, ALA and FBI
ALA’s Don Wood has a blog that he uses as a channel for his communications on libraries and intellectual freedom. Today he has a post about the ALA Washington Office … Read more Privacy, Libraries, ALA and FBI
The Nation on the YouTube/Google deal – leading edge of corporate takeover of the web
Trenchant and insightful article in The Nation by Jeffrey Chester: The Google YouTube Tango. This article focuses on how corporate claims-staking such as Google’s buyout of YouTube and Rupert Murdoch’s … Read more The Nation on the YouTube/Google deal – leading edge of corporate takeover of the web
Myspace: the business of Spam 2.0
Really interesting reading about myspace at Valleywag: Myspace: The Business of Spam 2.0 (Exhaustive Edition). This article points out a number of things about myspace that I wish I had … Read more Myspace: the business of Spam 2.0
The politics of openness
First Monday’s current issue is about the openness movement, including open access publishing, open source software development, and information projects with distributed authorship. One article is especially interesting: Sandra Braman’s … Read more The politics of openness
Barbara Fister on Library 2.0 and the culture of reading
Check out Barbara Fister’s thoughts on Library 2.0 and the culture of reading in her posting on the ACRL blog. She refers and links to a discussion in the mainstream … Read more Barbara Fister on Library 2.0 and the culture of reading
The Central Problem of Library 2.0: Privacy
Library 2.0 is a powerful idea that finds itself in an awkward predicament. It is an idea that has emerged out of what amounts to a separate discourse within librarianship, … Read more The Central Problem of Library 2.0: Privacy
Political Data-Theft at the Brecht Forum
“Two principal computers at the Brecht Forum were removed last night in what appears to be a politically targeted theft. The Brecht Forum is a 30- year old community-based center … Read more Political Data-Theft at the Brecht Forum