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 […]

Are We at a Tipping Point for Open Data?

[…] sharing policy in which they stated. Data should be made as widely and freely available as possible while safeguarding the privacy of participants, and protecting confidential and proprietary data. To facilitate data sharing, investigators submitting a research application requesting $500,000 […]

The Quest for the Perfect Vendor

[…] 20 or 30 academic book publishers all participate in the creation and exploitation of a common customer database. Drafting the privacy and use policy for such a program would be daunting, but the outcome of such an effort could be […]

PLOS' Bold Data Policy

[…] this data will be stored and how to pay for the efforts and services required. Since patient data has strict privacy requirements, it’s unclear how it will be handled. One also must wonder how any such policy can be monitored […]

Data-mining the Library

[…] metadata: information about where things are located, how they relate to other things, how often they circulate (but, rarely, for privacy reasons, about who actually accesses and reads the content). It’s that latter kind of information, the metadata, I am […]

Putting Society Publishing in Context

[…] remote access. This meant that a scholar could access a society’s journal — or thousands of journals — from the privacy of his or her study.  For some scholars this meant reevaluating the cost of society membership, especially for those […]