At the intersection of library data and privacy
Let’s start this week’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month post with a phrase that will cause some of you to scream into the void and others to weep at your work desk quietly: Admin privileges on work computers. Rationing admin privileges on work computers is one example of an information security practice that both protects and puts …
Continue reading “Information Security, Risk, and Getting in One’s Own Way”
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Continue reading “A Short Reflection on Uncertainty and Risk”
When we asked readers last week about library discussions around campus or organization mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations, we expected that libraries would have time to plan to adjust to the mandate. Responses from last week indicated as such. The consensus was various employee groups meeting and discussing who must be vaccinated and how workplaces can …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! To build or to outsource? Building an application or creating a process in a library takes time and resources. A major benefit of keeping it local, though, is that libraries have the greatest control over the data collected, stored, and processed by that application or system. Conversely, …
Continue reading “Just Published! Library Data Risk Assessment Guide”
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! “Animal, plant, or mineral?” Most folks can, with a healthy amount of confidence, say that something is one of those three, as well as explain the differences between the three categories. It’s also a fun game to keep younger kids occupied for your next long trip. Today …
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since our last post in April, and a lot has happened. A Supreme Court ruling that will change how courts interpret an individual’s right to privacy, a bipartisan federal data privacy bill gaining momentum, ICE dipping into LexisNexis data much more than initially thought – and all of that …
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Last week was a hectic week in the library world, but we made it! Ideally, we would be spending time in this week’s post summarizing the events that brought us to Follett’s announcement on Friday stating that they would not develop the proposed system features that would have put student privacy at risk. However, life …
Happy belated Spring Equinox to our fellow Northern Hemisphere dwellers! It doesn’t exactly feel like spring for many folks, but soon enough, there will be leaves on the trees, flowers in the gardens, and pollen in the air. So, so much pollen. Pollen that makes you sneeze even if you haven’t ventured outside in days …
Continue reading “#DataSpringCleaning 2022 – Glitter, Data, and You”
Welcome to the first week of Daylight Savings Time for most of our readers in the US! Now that we are short one hour of sleep, it’s the best time to start with a thought experiment. The following is an excerpt from a recent library technology conference poster proposal: “Patrons who visit an academic library …
Continue reading “Say What You Mean, or When Not to Use Certain Technical Terms”
Keeping track of the latest threats to patron data privacy and safety is easily a full-time job in quiet, uneventful times. Last week was neither quiet nor uneventful. From the possibility of increased cyber warfare in the coming weeks to the progression of anti-LGBTQIA+ and anti-CRT regulations in several US states, many library workers are …
Continue reading “Do These Three Things Today to Protect Your Patrons’ Privacy”