How Societies Structure Deals with Their Partners

[…] even of its users and authors. To take one particularly dramatic example, when publishers capitulated to libraries’ demands for end-user privacy,  they effectively outsourced to libraries the authentication of users. The result was Sci-Hub. The “fee-for-services” model. Every publisher uses […]

Elephants and the Internet: Online Forgetting

[…] up in your Facebook or Google+ stream. I’m digitally literate enough to know how to silo my contacts and configure privacy settings to ensure that there is a Chinese wall between my personal and professional lives. But there’s a lot packed […]

Connecting to End-Users

[…] that require support? This is indeed a promising area, but it comes with certain restrictions. First and most importantly, the privacy issues here are huge; any organization that does not have a carefully thought-out policy is going to run into […]