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Privacy & Libraries

Privacy & Libraries

Keynote for the Lake Superior Library Symposium 2016, delivered May 20, 2016.

Jason Griffey

May 20, 2016
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  1. PRI VACY I N LIBRARI ES GRIFFEY Keep On Rockin’

    In The Free World Jason Griffey Fellow Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard University
  2. PRI VACY I N LIBRARI ES GRIFFEY ALA Code Of

    Ethics We protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted.
  3. PRI VACY I N LIBRARI ES GRIFFEY Library Bill Of

    Rights Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
  4. “…just four points of reference, with fairly low spatial and

    temporal resolution, was enough to uniquely identify 95 percent…In other words, to extract the complete location information for a single person from an “anonymized” data set of more than a million people, all you would need to do is place him or her within a couple of hundred yards of a cellphone transmitter, sometime over the course of an hour, four times in one year. A few Twitter posts would probably provide all the information you needed, if they contained specific information about the person’s whereabouts."
  5. PRI VACY I N LIBRARI ES GRIFFEY •Security of Communications

    •Security of Accounts •Security of Data
  6. •LearningExpress, LLC - All passwords are stored using a salted

    hash. The salt is randomly generated and unique for each user. •OCLC - Passwords are md5 hashed. •EBSCO Information Services - EBSCOhost passwords in EBSCOadmin are stored in plain text •Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. - Passwords are stored as plain text. •ProQuest - We store all passwords as plain text. •Cengage Learning - Passwords are stored in plain text.
  7. F O U N D E R / P R

    I N C I PA L C O N S U LTA N T E V E N LY D I S T R I B U T E D L L C H T T P : / / E V E N LY D I S T R I B U T E D . N E T J A S O N G R I F F E Y M E A S U R E T H E F U T U R E H T T P : / / M E A S U R E T H E F U T U R E . N E T P H O T O C R E D I T: C I N D I B LY B E R G F E L L O W B E R K M A N C E N T E R F O R I N T E R N E T & S O C I E T Y H A R VA R D U N I V E R S I T Y J G R I F F E Y @ C Y B E R . L AW. H A R VA R D . E D U H T T P : / / J A S O N G R I F F E Y. N E T T H E L I B R A RY B O X P R O J E C T H T T P : / / L I B R A RY B O X . U S