Helmet-kirjastojen verkkosivustolla on ollut käytössä seurantateknologioita, joiden kautta tietoja esimerkiksi käyttäjän hakemista kirjoista ja muusta aineistosta on voinut välittyä sivullisille. HS
Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI): working together to combat the threat of cybercrime
Cybercrime is a huge threat to the entire scholarly ecosystem and safeguarding data and privacy is paramount. Higher education institutions need protection from cyber-attacks. Their data and their users’ data must be protected.
Researchers need confidence that research they are using is correct, up to date and properly connected to the scientific record.
Cybersecurity isn’t just an issue for publishers. It isn’t just a challenge for librarians. It is not just an obstacle for institutions or nuisance for researchers. This is an issue for all of us, and a ...
Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI) brings together publishers and institutions to solve cyber-challenges threatening the integrity of the scientific record, scholarly systems and the safety of personal data.
Members include large and small publishers, learned societies and university presses and others involved in scholarly communications.
2009. Google has made "woefully little effort to articulate how it intends to adequately protect reader privacy as part of this giant project," the groups said. "Under its current design, Google Book Search keeps track of what books readers search for an
Hervé Bourlard, from Idiap Research Institute ("an independent, non-profit research foundation specializing in multimedia information management and in multimodal man-machine interaction").
Jessamyn West et alios vs. the Patriot Act, Wiren article sept 2004. "While mainstream media have blandly stood by as the free flow of information is threatened, some librarians have been agitating. They have been collecting signatures -- close to a milli
The English monarchy could have stopped the Founding Fathers in their tracks if they only possessed “metadata” regarding which colonist talked to whom.
Den US-amerikanske bibliotekforeninga ALA offentliggjorde torsdag en uttalelse om nyheten om FBIs og NSAs lagring og overvåking av all e-post, nettbruk, sosiale medier og telefonsamtaler. ALA-lederen Maureen Sullivan sier at foreninga "krever en offentlig debatt for å komme fram til en best mulig balanse mellom personvernet og behovet for å bekjempe terrorisme". Han sier videre at "det fins ikke noe bedre sted enn biblioteket - med sine mengder av informasjon og lokaler som er velegna for debatter - når det gjelder å starte diskusjoner om disse komplekse spørsmåla".