Schools are measuring students in multiple ways — sometimes making that information public. The potential pitfalls are multiplying, too.

The use of a secure communication protocol (HTTPS) provides the best approach for protecting patron privacy, but not enough libraries use it.

for certain values of "easy"

There's very little oversight in the industry of data brokers, but they can affect health care costs, college acceptance and whether or not someone gets a home loan.

Let’s just say it: In the future, successful data companies will not own any data.

Privacy protections against government surveillance are often scoped to communications content and exclude communications metadata. In the United States, the National Security Agency operated a particularly controversial program, collecting bulk telephone metadata nationwide. We investigate the privacy properties of telephone metadata to assess the impact of policies that distinguish between content and metadata. We find that telephone metadata is densely interconnected, can trivially be reidentified, enables automated location and relationship inferences, and can be used to determine highly sensitive traits.

Library Freedom Project

A.I. helpers like Alexa and Siri are useful, but they’re not smart enough to keep your questions private—at least not yet.

...But first, some good news. Among the 123 members  of the Association of Research Libraries , there are four libraries with almost  secur...

With a handful of Web searches, you too can be a hacker.

"Schools are under relentless pressure to make ever greater use of technology."

There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitmen

Introduction Libraries face a number of challenges in protecting the privacy of users, especially students in elementary, middle, and high schools. School libraries offer print, media, and online

The Internet of Things may be about to change our lives as radically as the Internet itself did 20 years ago. The implications for privacy, national security, human rights, cyberespionage and the economy are staggering.

by Kyle Jones Records define us–partially.  They enclose data and information that reveal our past, present, and increasingly our future.  But they are never perfect representations of who we are as individuals, nor are they able to capture the richness Choose Privacy Week 2016 – Educational records: More than just grades and detentions in an era of data-driven education