Data Privacy Day 2012: “Should Librarians Care About Privacy Anymore?” A Free Webinar & Event
As part of Data Privacy Day 2012, the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is sponsoring a special program and webinar in honor of its 80th anniversary, “Should Librarians Care About Privacy Anymore?“ The program will take place this Friday, February 3, 2012 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern time in Peabody Hall, Room 08. The event will also be simulcast as a live webinar via Conference Streaming. There is no charge for admission.
The featured speaker is Barbara Jones, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. Jones argues that libraries must continue to care about privacy and serve as a model for the world on how libraries protect their users’ privacy despite new technologies that threaten library users’ privacy. Jones will discuss how librarians can continue to play a leadership role in the privacy realm and review some of the groundbreaking privacy work the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom has done with libraries and librarians, including the work done under its grant from the Open Society Foundations.
The program will include a panel discussion, which will include four panelists:
- Anne Klinefelter, associate professor of Law and director of the UNC at Chapel Hill Law Library
- Christopher (Cal) Lee, SILS associate professor
- Zeynep Tufekci, SILS associate professor
- Gary Marchionini, SILS Dean and panel moderator.
Those who plan to attend in person should register by writing or calling Wake Harper at 919.962.8366.
*UPDATE: Those who wish to view the live webinar need to pre-register by sending an email to Wake Harper at . To join the online conference after pre-registering, click on the following link below:
http://128.109.100.243/conference_stream.html?name=7912%20-%20UNC-CH%20SILS%2c%20%22Data%20Priva
Online viewers should log on using these credentials: Username: guest; password: guest. After logging in, viewers should click on, and choose Quicktime from the drop down menu (do not choose the default, which is Windows Media Player.) Viewers can log in up to a half hour earlier than the meeting begins.
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Today is Data Privacy Day
January 28 marks the annual observance of Data Privacy Day. First held in 2007 by the Council of Europe as “Data Protection Day,“ the event has grown into a international observance that seeks to provide information about personal data rights and protections to consumers of all ages. The United States officially joined in the observance of Data Privacy Day in 2009 when the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution HR 31, declaring January 28 National Data Privacy Day.
This year, Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill commemorated Data Privacy Day with an online talk discussing the importance of securing online personal data and Senator Patrick Leahy issued a statement praising Congressional efforts to protect individuals’ privacy in the online environment.
Data Privacy Day has a host of educational, government, and consumer resources for those who want to learn more about privacy or observe Data Privacy Day in their own institutions.
For our own observance of Data Privacy Day, we’d like to once more draw attention to Bruce Schneier‘s excellent essay on The Eternal Value of Privacy, which offers this concise summary of the problem with unfettered data collection and surveillance:
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that—either now or in the uncertain future—patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.
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Data Privacy Day 2012: Youth and Privacy
This is the second of a series of posts celebrating Data Privacy Day 2012 , an international celebration designed to promote awareness about the many ways personal information is collected, stored, used, and shared, and to promote education about privacy practices that will enable individuals to protect their personal information.
Young people care about their privacy and reputation, and are always willing to try and consider new tools and information that help them protect their online reputation. Data Privacy Day 2012 has compiled online resources discussing privacy and youth and offers a Youth and Privacy Tipsheet, available online as a digital download.
Another resource is the book lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying. The book uses real-life case studies to examine the consequences of oversharing, cyberbullying and other online risk taking, and offers actionable strategies and best practices to empower its readers to become responsible digital citizens and to maintain a positive online presence. To celebrate Data Privacy Day, the authors and publishers of lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying are making the book available as a free download between January 27 and January 30. Get the free e-book at http://www.lolomgbook.com/#!vstc5=ebook.
Finally, books are great discussion starters when talking about privacy issues with youth. Here is a selection of books (accompanied by the publishers’ suggested age levels) that offer a variety of perspectives on privacy:
Dystopic Futures
1984 by George Orwell (Age 14 and older)
Candor by Pam Bacchorz (Age 13 and older)
Feed by M.T. Anderson (Age 14 and older)
Glasshouse by Charles Stross (Age 14 and older)
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (Age 12 and older)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Age 13 and older)
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (Age 14 and older)
Rash by Pete Hautman (Age 12 and older)
The Silenced by James DeVita (Age 13 and older)
Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman (Age 13 and older)
The Unidentified by Rae Mariz (Age 13 and older)
Historical Perspectives
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez (Age 12 and older)
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Age 12 and older)
Catch a Tiger by the Toe by Ellen Levine (Ages 9-12)
The Composition by Antonio Skármeta (Ages 9-16)
A Hand Full of Stars by Rafik Scharmi (Age 12 and older)
The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman (Age 11 and older)
Under a Red Sky: Memories of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar (Age 14 and older)
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís (Age 9 and older)
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (Age 11 and older)
Contemporary Fiction
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (Age 10 and older)
Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsburg (Age 13 and older)
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman (Age 12 and older)
The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarity (Age 14 and older)
TTYL (series) by Lauren Myracle (Age 13 and older)
Want to go Private? by Sarah Darer Littman (Age 14 and older)
What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones (Age 13 and older)
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Celebrate Data Privacy Day 2012
Is your library celebrating Data Privacy Day?
Data Privacy Day is an annual international celebration designed to promote awareness about the many ways personal information is collected, stored, used, and shared, and to promote education about privacy practices that will enable individuals to protect their personal information.
ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom will be celebrating Data Privacy Day from January 26 through February 3, 2012 with a series of blog posts highlighting webinars, special events, and resources that libraries and librarians can use to promote an understanding of best privacy practices and privacy rights and celebrate Data Privacy Day.
Visit Data Privacy Day’s website for tipsheets, web resources, and a list of local events and online webinars, including their online guide for libraries, “What Libraries Can Do.”
The celebration begins Thursday, January 26, when Data Privacy Day sponsors a special online event, “The Intersection of Privacy and Security,“ featuring the Honorable Julie Brill, Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. The event will be livestreamed on Facebook and is open to all at https://www.facebook.com/events/347608958585471/.
And as a reminder, the third annual OIF-sponsored Choose Privacy Week will take place May 1-7, 2012. Choose Privacy Week posters, bookmarks, buttons, and other resources are available for sale now at the ALA Store. To stay abreast of Choose Privacy Week announcements, follow @privacyala on Twitter or become a Facebook fan. The theme for this year is “Freedom from Surveillance.”
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