At the intersection of library data and privacy
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently published version 1.0 of their Privacy Framework. The purpose of the framework is to create a holistic approach to manage privacy risks in an organization. The Framework is different from other standards in such that the goal is not …
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 …
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[Author’s note – this posts uses the term “Dark Data” which is an outdated term. Learn more about the problem with the term’s use of “dark” at Intuit’s content design manual.] Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Also, welcome to the first week of Daylight Savings Time in most of the US! To …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Data breach and website hacking stories are (sadly) commonplace in the news. But what happens when the hack in question did not involve a single site, but your entire browsing history, complete with sensitive data, while you were logged into what was supposed to be a secure …
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 …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! The temperature in Las Vegas in September is still hot, but LDH survived the heat while attending the Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019 conference hosted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Thousands of privacy professionals from a variety of backgrounds came together to share their knowledge and …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! You’re working the information desk at the local college library. A student comes up to you, personal laptop in tow. They say that they can’t access many of the library databases they need for a class assignment. You ask them to show you what errors they are …
Continue reading “Filtering and Privacy: What Would You Do?”
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! We at LDH survived the full moon on the Friday the 13th, though our Executive Assistant failed to bring donuts into the office to ward off bad luck. Unfortunately, several universities need more than luck against a widespread cyberattack that has a connection to libraries. This attack, …
Continue reading “Silent Librarian and Tracking Report Cards”
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Our Executive Assistant argues that we at LDH shouldn’t use her name to answer the question in today’s newsletter title. She is, after all, our Executive Assistant, and not a pet. However, the EA’s objection also has merit for information security reasons. Today we visit our information …