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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Librarians: Contribute to a new survey about librarians and privacy
Librarians and library workers are invited to participate in a survey that will measure librarians’ attitudes about privacy rights and protecting library users’ privacy.
The survey is available online, and takes only 15 minutes to complete. All responses are anonymous and confidential:
http://tinyurl.com/ALAprivacysurvey
The survey, which builds on an earlier 2008 survey assessing librarians’ attitudes about privacy both within and outside of the library, will provide important data that will help ALA assess the state of privacy in the United States and help guide OIF’s planning for “Privacy for All,“ ALA’s ongoing campaign to engage librarians in public education and advocacy to advance privacy rights. The survey will be available until March 1, 2012.
The study is funded by a generous grant from the Open Society Institute and is managed by Dr. Michael Zimmer, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies and co-director of its Center for Information Policy Research.
Barbara Jones, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, encouraged all librarians and library workers to take the survey. “After three successful years working on Choose Privacy Week and related educational programs, it is essential that we test our assumptions for the remaining years of the grant,“ she said. “We want ‘Privacy for All’ to create models for programming and services that librarians can use for various constituencies and community groups. We can’t do that without your opinions.“
The “Privacy for All” initiative features Choose Privacy Week, an annual event that encourages libraries and librarians to engage library users in a conversation about privacy; and a website, privacyrevolution.org, that provides access to privacy-related news, information and programming resources. In 2011 - 2012, “Privacy for All” and Choose Privacy Week will be focused on the topic of government surveillance, with an emphasis on immigrant and refugee communities’ use of libraries and youth attitudes about privacy.
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Facebook Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers By Failing To Keep Privacy Promises
From the FTC’s statement:
“The social networking service Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.
The FTC complaint lists a number of instances in which Facebook allegedly made promises that it did not keep:
* In December 2009, Facebook changed its website so certain information that users may have designated as private - such as their Friends List - was made public. They didn’t warn users that this change was coming, or get their approval in advance.
* Facebook represented that third-party apps that users’ installed would have access only to user information that they needed to operate. In fact, the apps could access nearly all of users’ personal data - data the apps didn’t need.
* Facebook told users they could restrict sharing of data to limited audiences - for example with “Friends Only.“ In fact, selecting “Friends Only” did not prevent their information from being shared with third-party applications their friends used.
* Facebook had a “Verified Apps” program & claimed it certified the security of participating apps. It didn’t.
* Facebook promised users that it would not share their personal information with advertisers. It did.
* Facebook claimed that when users deactivated or deleted their accounts, their photos and videos would be inaccessible. But Facebook allowed access to the content, even after users had deactivated or deleted their accounts.
* Facebook claimed that it complied with the U.S.- EU Safe Harbor Framework that governs data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union. It didn’t.
The proposed settlement bars Facebook from making any further deceptive privacy claims, requires that the company get consumers’ approval before it changes the way it shares their data, and requires that it obtain periodic assessments of its privacy practices by independent, third-party auditors for the next 20 years.
Specifically, under the proposed settlement, Facebook is:
* barred from making misrepresentations about the privacy or security of consumers’ personal information;
* required to obtain consumers’ affirmative express consent before enacting changes that override their privacy preferences;
* required to prevent anyone from accessing a user’s material no more than 30 days after the user has deleted his or her account;
* required to establish and maintain a comprehensive privacy program designed to address privacy risks associated with the development and management of new and existing products and services, and to protect the privacy and confidentiality of consumers’ information; and
* required, within 180 days, and every two years after that for the next 20 years, to obtain independent, third-party audits certifying that it has a privacy program in place that meets or exceeds the requirements of the FTC order, and to ensure that the privacy of consumers’ information is protected.
The proposed order also contains standard record-keeping provisions to allow the FTC to monitor compliance with its order.
Facebook’s privacy practices were the subject of complaints filed with the FTC by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and a coalition of consumer groups.“
Full statement online at: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/11/privacysettlement.shtm
FTC Complaint: http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0923184/111129facebookcmpt.pdf
Settlement: http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0923184/111129facebookagree.pdf
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Four Experts Weign In On the Loss of Online Privacy
Last week, the Wall Street Journal asked four privacy experts to weigh in on the threat posed by the loss of online privacy by social networking, behavioral tracking of online behavior, and government surveillance. The panelists included Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary for Homeland Security; danah boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft who has worked extensively with young people; Jeff Jarvis, an associate professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; and Chris Soghoian, a fellow at the Open Society Institute.
danah boyd and Jeff Jarvis have now made the complete text of their remarks available:
danah boyd, Debating Privacy In a Networked World for WSJ
Jeff Jarvis, Debate on Privacy: The Fulller Text
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Privacy & Youth Conference in Chicago
ALA will be hosting a conference on youth and privacy in Chicago, March 24 - 25, 2011. We’ve invited students, librarians, educators, researchers, public policy professionals, and other thinkers to help us identify ways to best reach young people with messages about privacy. ALA and other attendees will be tweeting during the conference (follow us @privacyala and the #youthprivacy hashtag) and we’ll be reporting on the discussions and ideas that come out of this event at http://youthprivacy.ala.org.
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Welcome, Society of American Archivists!
We’re pleased to welcome the Privacy and Confidentiality Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists as our newest Choose Privacy Week ally! We are looking forward to working with SAA to develop videos and other resources on privacy that harness the unique perspective and expertise of archivists. For more information on SAA’s Privacy and Confidentiality Roundtable, and our other fantastic friends and allies for Choose Privacy Week, please see our Friends and Allies page.
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Support Adoption of Reader Privacy Amendment in House of Representatives
Three controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, including Section 215, the “library provision,” are scheduled to expire on February 28, 2011, unless Congress votes to extend or amend the provisions before that date. The looming deadline has sparked several legislative initiatives, including one initiative, S. 290, sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), that would provide greater privacy protections for library and bookstore records that contain information about readers’ First Amendment-protected activities.
Other Congressional representatives are seeking to extend Section 215 and other PATRIOT Act provisions without any amendments to protect readers’ privacy. Representatives John Conyers (D-MI), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ron Paul (R-TX) and Walter B. Jones (R-NC), in hopes of restoring the safeguards for bookstore and library records that were eliminated by the Patriot Act, have introduced an amendment to pending legislation that will prohibit the use of the Patriot Act to search “library circulation records, library patron lists, book sales records, and book customer lists.”
The Office for Intellectual Freedom and ALA’s Washington Office have joined with the Campaign for Reader Privacy, which represents booksellers, librarians, publishers and authors, to urge all readers, librarians and library supporters to immediately call their members of Congress to urge support for the Conyers amendment to FY2011 Continuing Resolution.
Immediate action is needed, as the vote on this amendment is currently scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 17. To communicate with your Congressional representative, call the U.S House of Representatives at (202) 224-3121 or use CAPWIZ to email your representative. Full details on the Conyers Amendment can be found on the Washington Office’s District Dispatch blog.
The full Campaign for Reader Privacy Statement can be read online: “House To Vote on Reader Privacy Amendment”
(Cross-posted from the OIF Blog)
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