Digital/Library Privacy

Gary Price, MLIS

gprice@gmail.com

Founder/Editor, infoDOCKET.com
 Editor,  ARL Day in Review

This Document Available at: http://bit.ly/libraryprivacy20

• NIST Issues ‘Historic’ Update to Security and Privacy Guidance
  

Opening Comments

• "It's a Matter of TRUST" -- Billy Joel

• Facebook: FTC Agreement
• SnapChat: FTC Agreement
• Google: Tracking of Student Data

• The Effort and Vigilance this Profession Devotes/Has Devoted to Privacy in the Print Age Has Fallen Far Short to this Point in the Digital Age

• Privacy as a Mindset

• My Belief: Awareness, Education, Decision = Informed Decisions

• The "Networked" / "Online" Library Relies on Others (Vendors, Internet Providers, etc.)

• Everyone Has a Different Comfort Level, Insurance Salesperson

• Recent Facebook Reports

• Mining of Data by Cambridge Analytica
• Android Users: Phone Records
• Retention of Videos Never Posted
• What Do the Last Two (and Likely Others) Have in Common?

• Google: Credit Card Tracking

• Transparency About the Services We Provide

• A Profession Always Looking for Ways to Demonstrate Relevancy, Importance People Trust Librarians

• Standards are Important But Also You Can Do a Lot at Personal Level: The Librarian as Privacy Educator

User Perspectives

• Do Users Care in the First Place?

• Is User Age a Factor?

• Should We (the Library Profession) Care?

• Ethics: Reader Privacy

• Personal Choice Based on Informed and Current Info

Breaking It Down

• Data Transmission Over the Internet (Encryption)

• Security of Data Stored Locally

• Security of Data Stored by Third Parties (What's a Third Party)

• Reputation of Third Parties (Retention, Storage, etc.)

• Analytics, Location Info and Other Data Shared with Third Parties

• Tracking Across Devices

• Data Shared via a Specific Device (e.g. School Issued Devices)

• Cameras in the Library/Cameras Everywhere!

• Facial Recognition
• Camfind

• Mining of Web Material Posted by Users (e.g. Images) 

Review: Privacy Options/Settings

• Google
• Facebook
• Microsoft
• You Are the Product

Language

• Anonymized Data: What Does it Actually Mean

• Location Data

• Keeping it Secure: HTTPS
• End-to-End Encryption: Signal
• IP/GeoIP
• Data Leakage
• Opt-In, Opt-Out
• 2FA

• Tor
• "Sniffing" (Packet Sniffing)

• Incognito Mode
• Fingerprinting ||| Learn More

• Virtual Private Network (VPN)

• Tracking Your Usage: Cookies & Beacons, Pixels

• Referer

• Javascript

• What Does Deleted Actually Mean?

• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Beacons

What About You? 

Personator

WhitePages.com

Additional Thoughts  

• Very Hard to Not Leave a Data Footprint (Even if You Try)

• Re: Library Services (Do We Provide the Same Transparency We Ask of Others?)

• The Ultimate Mash-Up: Merging of Data (even Anonymized Data) From Multiple Data Points Can Identify Someone, Easier Than Ever Before

• Does Your Library Have a TIMELY Notification Plan If Data Breach Occurs?  

Tools to Be Aware Of

NextDNS

Deleting Your Facebook Account

Other Ways Facebook Gets Data, New Tool to Help (Firefox Only)

Just Delete Me

DataBreaches.Net

Masked Email: Blur

URLScan.io

AdBlock for iOS

Wireshark – Audit Tool

Gmail Last Login

BrowserSpy

ublock Origin

Privacy Badger

Shodan (What’s Connected to Internet)

Location-Aware Browsing (Firefox)

Location History (For Android Users)

How to Remove Voice Recordings from Google Home

• Wireshark
• Brave Browser
• Opera Browser
• Acxiom Catalogue
• Facebook Computer Vision Tags
• Ublock Origin for Chrome