At the intersection of library data and privacy
It’s been a while since we last wrote about the many ways companies track users with cookies and beyond. This week we’re coming back to our “Beyond Web Cookies” series with the latest development in site tracking and why your library should consider opting out to protect patron privacy. (Puns in this post are fully …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Previous posts in our series about web cookies, tracking, and privacy discussed ways that tracking applications such as Google Analytics can track website users across sites. We covered how using other Google-related products can put site user privacy at risk through third party data collection. This week …
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Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Earlier we discussed the basics of web cookies, including the cookies used in tracking applications such as Google Analytics. However, there are many ways Google can track your online behavior even when you block Google Analytics cookies and avoid using Google Chrome. Because Google provides applications and …
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