Patron Privacy in a Surveillance State

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Patron Privacy in a Surveillance State

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 4:50 PM–5:35 PM CDT

Room 204

Conference Track

8. Emerging Technologies & Trends

Keywords

privacy, surveillance

Learning Objectives

carry out a usage data security audit, influence patron privacy policy

Abstract

How do we preserve our traditional library patron privacy ethic in an age of networked services? This presentation has two parts. (1) I will present a summary of a usage data inventory the Cornell University Library did recently and how the results of that study are informing Library policy moving forward. (2) I will present a synthesis of what the library literature says about our post-Snowden reality.