Digital Privacy & Technology Guide: Stay Current with Technology Trends

Invite Library Freedom to your library, conference, and/or network to offer trainings on various digital privacy topics. Library Freedom's Privacy Advocates are spread across the country and can speak on a variety of privacy and surveillance issues, y hablan español.

LDH Consulting Services provides a number of services to libraries and vendors on a variety of topics around library data privacy. Becky Yoose has worked with library data flows at both large and small academic and public libraries, as well as with both proprietary and open source library applications and systems. An industry leader, Becky has been recognized by the library community with invitations to participate in the Library Values and Privacy Summit and the National Web Privacy Forum as well as a guest lecturer on library privacy in various groups and classes, including Library Freedom Institute.

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Jessamyn West is a library technologist based in rural Vermont. Jessamyn gives talks on the intersection of libraries, technology and politics.

This collection is available to help libraries understand how trends are developing and why they matter. Each trend is updated as new reports and articles are made available.

This presentation by Callan Bignoli at the 2021 ALA Midwinter Conference provides an overview about technologies that impact and infringe on our privacy and other civil liberties, focusing on algorithmic bias and the disproportionate harm surveillance can have on marginalized communities.

A compilation of laws, regulations, cases and web sources on medical records privacy law by MA's Trial Court Law Libraries.

A five-part series on health misinformation, the nuances of contact tracing, and the latest in telehealth. Sponsored by Library Freedom Project, Chinese American Library Association (CALA), Cherry Hill Public Library, and National Library of Medicine and Institutes of Health.

Brief report from S.T.O.P. that outlines the arguments for and against vaccine registries.

The intersection between surveillance and technology, and the impact it has on our climate.

Learn steps employees can take to protect their privacy from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

How workplace surveillance harms morale, productivity and compromises an individual's privacy.

Article explores what workers should know about corporate surveillance software as workplaces consider permanent remote work policies.

The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software.

In light of the growing use of data and algorithms in the workplace, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education released a report that provides a set of policy principles for workers’ technology rights in the United States.

Author explores how Roblox relies on its users to develop creative content and engage its platform with limited financial reward, and causes long-term emotional harm to children as they grow up.

Report and visualization of the data, labor, and ecological impacts of one Amazon Echo device from AI Now Institute.

Dr. Miriam Sweeney explores key privacy issues associated with emerging technologies in library services and programming, including questions about patron data collection, management, and use across the lifecycle of smart technologies.

An exploration of smart voice assistant use and privacy in libraries by Miriam E. Sweeney.

Advocates for survivors say the approach could end up doing more harm than good.

How the Echo misrepresents the direction of power between user and devices in a way that makes contending with issues such as surveillance and digital labor increasingly difficult.

The article finds that the “ideal” citizen is defined through the Emma interface as an assimilated citizen-consumer that engages with digital technologies in ways that produce them as informationally “legible” to the state.

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Latest news in security and privacy issues.

The latest tech news about the world's best (and sometimes worst) hardware, apps, and much more.

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Mozilla Foundation's advocacy resources. Stay up to date with emerging issues and how to protect a free and open internet.

Watch various videos and programs offered by EFF

A wealth of research and policy documents focused on ICT and gender. Its resources section includes issues at the intersection of gender and technology.

PEN America offers a range of free webinars on information literacy, digital environments and free expression.

Various members of the library community explore contemporary issues related to privacy, censorship, libraries and more on ALA's Intellectual Freedom Blog.

Choose Privacy Every Day: Voices of Privacy Blog’s purpose is to educate and encourage discussions about privacy-related issues impacting libraries and their users.

SAA's Privacy & Confidentiality Section provides a forum for the discussion of privacy and confidentiality issues and their legal and ethical implications for archival practice.

Librarian turned Information Security expert!

Kade Crawford is the Director of ACLU Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Program. Learn about the impact of surveillance technology on our communities by following Kade's blog.

April Glaser is an investigative journalist who covers robots, drones, artificial intelligence and technology topics. Her writing has appeared in Slate, Gizmodo, Backchannel and Recode. Prior to her fellowship at Harvard in 2021, April Glaser was an investigative reporter with NBC News' tech team.

Janus Rose is a New York City-based writer and educator who studies technology’s impacts on privacy and human rights. She is a a senior editor at Motherboard and her work has been featured in DAZED Magazine, The New Yorker, and other print and online publications.

Recorded in 2017 over the course of five weeks, this podcast explored the science, psychology, and ethics behind surveillance and technology in the digital age.

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