{"id":15547,"date":"2020-01-28T15:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=15547"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:39:25","slug":"the-data-privacy-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2020\/01\/28\/the-data-privacy-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Data Privacy Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday January 17th,2020 NEASIS&T held it’s annual winter conference aptly titled, The Privacy Puzzle: Piecing Together Patron Privacy, Data Efficiency, and the Modern Web. <\/i>The theme was privacy and protecting personal information.\u00a0 <\/span>The first keynote<\/span> – <\/span><\/i>Callan Bignoli, the<\/span> Library Director at Olin College, was very thought provoking.\u00a0 Her talk was titled <\/span>\u00a0“Troublesome Tech Trends: Libraries in the Age of Surveillance<\/span><\/i>“.<\/span> The second Keynote speaker was Michael Leach, the Head of Collection Development at Cabot Science Library at Harvard University, was titled<\/span> “Control: Giving People Authority Over Their Personal Data \u2013 A Library Perspective.”<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 Both talks and the following discussion highlighted the dilemma we face every day about the risks to giving up our right to control our personal information. There is the struggle of balancing our personal information versus the potential benefits from giving it up, knowing or unknowingly, to use a tool to make our lives better or easier.\u00a0 The positive thing to remember is that for libraries and other stewards of information, privacy is not only a familiar conversation, but also a professional responsibility that requires us to be vigilant and proactive. It is important to be aware and to ask questions such as:<\/span><\/p>\n