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".
Evgeny Morozov FAZ 24.07.2013: "...many Europeans are finally grasping, to their great dismay, that the word “cloud” in “cloud computing” is just a euphemism for “some dark bunker in Idaho or Utah.” Borges, had he lived long enough, would certainly choose a server rack – not a library – as the primary site for his surreal stories. A database larger than the world it is meant to represent: a Borges short story or a slide from an NSA PowerPoint? One can’t say for sure." "There’s no separate realm that gives rise to a new brand of “digital” power; it’s one world, one power, with America at the helm. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, a former senior official at the State Department who went to work for Google, had the misfortune to publish a book that assured us that this was no longer the case – “The New Digital Age” – just a few months before the Snowden revelations. Rare is a book that ages so quickly."
The Library of Congress, one of the biggest libraries in the world, gathers 5 terabytes a month. The NSA sucks up much, much more. "The NSA say it needs all this data to help prevent another terrorist attack like 9/11. In order to find the needle in the haystack, they argue, they need access to the whole haystack."
Slutgiltig version 10 juli 2013 - The product of over a year of consultation among civil society, privacy and technology experts (read here, here, here and here), the principles have already been co-signed by over hundred organisations from around the world. The process was led by Privacy International, Access, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Dessa principer kan fungera som ett ramverk när organisationer från civilsamhället, näringslivet, stater och andra utvärderar huruvida befintliga eller föreslagna lagar och metoder för övervakning är förenliga med de mänskliga rättigheterna. Principerna är resultatet av ett globalt samråd mellan organisationer från civilsamhället, näringslivet och internationella juridiska experter inom övervakning, policy och teknik för kommunikationsövervakning.
Svensk Biblioteksförening 4 november, 2013 IFLA arbetar aktivt med frågor som rör användarnas integritet på biblioteken. Kommittéarbetet inom FAIFE kommer under 2014 bland annat att fokusera på internetmanifestet. Tillsammans med bland andra de amerikanska och brittiska biblioteksföreningarna, American Library Association och CILIP, ska manifestet revideras. Under konferensen Internet Governance Forum på Bali diskuterades de senaste avslöjanden om regeringars övervakningar och hur detta skapar en ny kontext för bibliotekens verksamheter. IFLA menar att biblioteksgemenskapen måste vara förberedd på utvecklingen och fortsätta värna grundläggande värderingar när de tillhandahåller internet till sina användare.