At the intersection of library data and privacy
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! This week’s post is a “back to basics” about de-identification and patron data. Why? After reading a recent article published in the Code4Lib Journal where patron data was not de-identified before combining it with external data sets, now’s a good time as any to remind library workers …
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Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! A popular way to procrastinate at LDH is to dig through the pile of articles and other literature about all facets of privacy: regulations, ethics, practices, current events… the current events pile is at overcapacity at the moment. In these piles of articles, we come across one …
Hello everyone, Black Lives Matter. If your library or archive is thinking about collecting photographs, videos, or other materials from the protests around George Floyd’s death caused by Minneapolis police, what are you doing to protect the privacy of the protesters? Black Lives Matter protestors and organizers, as well as many protesters and organizers in …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Contact tracing has been used in the past with other diseases which helped curve infection rates in populations, so health and government officials are looking at contact tracing once again as a tool to help control the spread of disease, this time with COVID-19. There have been …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! This weekend was hot in Seattle, with temperatures near 90 F. While the Executive Assistant took this time to bask in this heat, we at LDH tried to find a cool spot in the home office to work, away from the Executive Assistant’s gaze. Last week was …
We regularly get asked at LDH about password managers: what they are, if people should use them, and which ones to use. While there is some consensus in the information security world about password managers, there is still some debate – if you ask three security experts about password managers, you will get at least …
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Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Zoom has had one of those weeks. Since we last wrote about Zoom’s privacy issues last week, the number of additional privacy issues has skyrocketed. It’s gotten to the point where there are news articles just trying to keep track of all these updates. Even those articles …
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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, everyone. It’s been a week for many of us as COVID-19 rapidly changed both work and personal lives. During the last newsletter, public events were still going on, schools and libraries were still open, and we were not in a pandemic. This newsletter is being composed in …
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Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! A driver’s license card is the first document many people use to prove their identity, be it at work, or the bank, or the airport. The card has key information needed for organizations and institutions: name, date of birth, address, photo, and the illustrious driver’s license number. …