Reposted from chooseprivacyweek.com Tomorrow, May 1, begins our annual observance of Choose Privacy Week. It’s an event that invites everyone to visit their local library and learn more about the importance of protecting your privacy rights in an age of pervasive surveillance. During Choose Privacy Week, libraries will offer individuals the opportunity to learn, think [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Choose Privacy Week’
April 17, 2013
Countdown to Choose Privacy Week, May 1-7
In this era of “Big Data,” we know that our location, our phone calls, our purchases, our Facebook posts and our web site visits are being monitored, recorded, collected, and stored. But too often we can’t tell who’s collecting our data, or how they’re making use of our personal information. During Choose Privacy Week, May [...]
April 2, 2013
Planning for Choose Privacy Week? Free April 9 Webinar Offers Ideas for Programming and Outreach
Are you preparing for Choose Privacy Week? Join ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and librarians across the country next week for a free webinar to discuss how your library can observe Choose Privacy Week, ALA’s annual education and awareness campaign that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital [...]
November 28, 2012
Call for Action: Tell Congress to Protect Online Privacy
The Electronic Computer Privacy Act (ECPA) is scheduled for markup tomorrow, Thursday, November 29th, in the Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC). Originally enacted in 1986 as a means of addressing telephonic wiretapping, at a time when technology was less complex and the Internet had not yet become a ubiquitous means of communication, ECPA is no longer [...]
May 7, 2012
Choose Privacy Week 2012: Why We Should Care About Privacy
Doug Archer, chair of the Privacy Subcommittee of ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee (ALA-IFC), closes our Choose Privacy Week observance with a thoughtful reflection on why individuals should care about privacy: Why We Should Care About Privacy by J. Douglas Archer, Reference and Peace Studies Librarian, University of Notre Dame, and chair of the ALA-IFC Privacy Subcommittee It never [...]
May 7, 2012
New Choose Privacy Week Documentary: “Vanishing Liberties”
On the final day of Choose Privacy Week 2012, the Office for Intellectual Freedom is excited to debut a new short documentary, “Vanishing Liberties: The Rise of State Surveillance in the Digital Age.” The documentary examines the government’s growing use of surveillance tools to track and spy on immigrant communities and the proposals to adopt [...]
May 2, 2012
Choose Privacy Week 2012: The Perils of Social Reading
By Neil Richards Professor of Law Washington University School of Law Sharing, we are told, is cool. At the urging of Facebook and Netflix, the House of Representatives recently passed a bill to “update” an obscure 1988 law known as the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”). Facebook and Netflix wanted to modernize this law from [...]
May 2, 2012
CPW2012: “Libraries may be our society’s best bet in resisting government intrusions into privacy.”
by George Christian Guest Blogger Six years ago, three of my board members and I had the relief of having a perpetual gag order lifted in Federal Court. Our organization, a consortium of 27 libraries, had been served with a National Security Letter seeking library records. National Security Letters are subpoena-like instruments modified in 2001 [...]
May 1, 2012
Choose Privacy Week 2012: The Privacy Expert You Need to Meet – Your Local Librarian
I am honored to be the first blogger in a series of posts celebrating ALA’s Choose Privacy Week. Thanks to funding from the Open Society Foundations, this is our third year and we are so pleased to share with you our campaign’s growth. Get to know www.privacyrevolution.org! There you can view the very latest news [...]
April 27, 2012
CPW 2012: Amie Stepanovich on Biometrics and Government Surveillance
This is the third in a series of three video presentations in advance of Choose Privacy Week that explore the growing impact of government surveillance on our civil liberties. In this video, Amie Stepanovich, counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), provides an overview of the government’s growing use of biometrics as a tool [...]
