At the intersection of library data and privacy
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Cybersecurity Awareness Month wouldn’t be complete without a post about a current cybersecurity threat. This month we learned that Silent Librarian is making the rounds right on time for the start of the academic school year. Academic libraries encountered Silent Librarian last year, where several prominent universities …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! The amount that you spent web conferencing has most likely increased exponentially in the last few weeks. Library workers working from home now rely on web conferencing software for daily operations, including meetings and check-ins with other colleagues. With this shift to web conferencing, though, comes a …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Some of you might already know that LDH is based out of Seattle. Seattle has been in the news with the recent COVID-19 cases and deaths in the area. We at LDH are staying relatively healthy (outside of it being allergy season in town). Nonetheless, some of …
Continue reading “COVID-19: Resources and Privacy Considerations”
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! At LDH we have been known to have a sweet tooth – there are always four to five different types of sweets within reach of the office desk. Therefore, it shouldn’t come to a surprise to our newsletter readers that when presented with the option to get …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! This is our last newsletter of the year – the Executive Assistant is on Holiday Break. We’ll be back on January 6th with the first newsletter of 2020. Before we head out for the year, give the gift of privacy this holiday season: Turn off location tracking …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Last week was a busy news week, and you might have missed an important update that could affect your library. Here are some of the major privacy news updates that you might have missed. Evernote and law enforcement requests Last week Motherboard reported that Evernote gave user …
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 …
Continue reading “Beyond Web Cookies: WordPress, Plugins, and Privacy”
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! We hate to break it to you, but there are only a few weeks left in 2019. Do you know what that means? That’s right – only a few more weeks before the California Consumer Privacy Act comes into effect. A lot has happened since our first …
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 …
Continue reading “Beyond Web Cookies: The Ways Google Tracks Your Users”
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! We’re still sorting through the big pile of notes and handouts from our trip to #PSR19 last month. This week’s newsletter will cover another session from the conference. Escaping the clutches of CCPA we focus on another important topic – particularly for libraries – for reasons that …