"Librarians see the value as soon as you say ‘privacy protecting technology.'"

You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that were hacked. “A million email addresses were stolen” or “hackers ripped off 100,000 passwords.” Doe…

The St. Paul Public Library plans to join a growing number of libraries nationwide using data analysis software to gain insights on current patrons and find ways to attract new ones. But the initiative makes some privacy advocates nervous.

This essay analyzes the ability of everyday Americans to resist and alter the conditions of government surveillance. Americans appear to have several avenues of

Advertising is making the mobile web almost unusable by clogging up our bandwidth – which may end up driving users to Apple News or Facebook apps

A deep setting in Firefox lets you reduce tracking even further than Do Not Track. It seems to be a dead end, but the path is being well trod.

Internet-based file-sharing services such as Dropbox and Google Drive can be easy and convenient to use, whether via the touch of an app on a mobile

June 2, 2015, was a great day for privacy. June 16 was not.

Good contextual history of the American sense of "invasion of privacy."

I was once in charge of one of the first Coca-Cola machines on the Internet. This was the late 20th century at MIT, where we thought it was pretty awesome that you could, in theory, make the machine dispense a Coke from your desktop computer without having to walk over to it. (Of course you still had to walk there to pick up your Coke in the end.)

Some consumer websites say they will not sell users’ data, but unrestricted-data clauses allow them to transfer it if a merger or other transaction occurs.

One potential reason: the legislation "doesn't have the Edward Snowden sex appeal the NSA issues had," says its author, Rep. Kevin Yoder.

I have wanted to publish a column on privacy as it relates to library technology for a while. While privacy has always been an issue at the forefront of librarians' minds, revelations surrounding the NSA's far-reaching data-collection programs and a seemingly unending string of high-profile breaches at major companies make paying attention to privacy all the more pressing. Having discovered Alison Macrina's work via an appropriately-titled article "Radical Librarianship: How Ninja Librarians are Ensuring Patrons' Electronic Privacy" she was an obvious choice for author. Her work with the Library Freedom Project is vitally important to the future of libraries and recently earned a Knight Foundation grant.

Government and industry talks over a code of conduct for face recognition collapsed this week. It could mean privacy in the physical world is slipping away