Library Cataloging
Not cataloging, but maybe useful info for school and academic librarians.
- Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released logfinder, a software tool to help people reduce the unnecessary collection of personal information about computer users. Often computer network servers automatically log information about who has...
- Privacy
An excellent edition of the Sceeen Savers aired last night, April 28. It dealt with on-line privacy. Tips on encription, WiFi security, password protection, and more. If you have some responsibility with public computing in your institution this would...
- Privacy
Let your representatives know of your support for the Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act....
- Access
I have avoided speaking about politics because that was a limit I placed on myself when I began this 'blog. The time has come to bend if not break that self-imposed restriction. As catalogers, we try to provide access to materials. Our discussions...
- Spyware
AdAware 6 has been released. It willscan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that...
Library Cataloging
Privacy
Not cataloging, but maybe useful info for school and academic librarians.
The Pentagon announced just this summer it has been collecting and using data -- including such sensitive personal information as Social Security numbers, ethnicity, GPA, personal email addresses, height, weight, and even the cell phone numbers of kids, without their parent's permission. They had been keeping the database secret for more than three years -- a violation of federal privacy laws and the privacy of tens of millions of young Americans. In addition, a little known provision in the federal No Child Left Behind Act is forcing public high schools to release the personal information of their students to local military recruiters, again without the consent of their families.While law compels schools to violate the privacy of ordinary Americans, it also creates a way for families to "Opt Out" of both the local high school military recruitment lists, and the national Pentagon database. If you know someone between the ages of 16 and 25, spread the word: you can "Opt Out" to stop the Pentagon from using your data, and to prevent your high school from releasing it to recruiters, by clicking on the link.Privacy
- Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released logfinder, a software tool to help people reduce the unnecessary collection of personal information about computer users. Often computer network servers automatically log information about who has...
- Privacy
An excellent edition of the Sceeen Savers aired last night, April 28. It dealt with on-line privacy. Tips on encription, WiFi security, password protection, and more. If you have some responsibility with public computing in your institution this would...
- Privacy
Let your representatives know of your support for the Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act....
- Access
I have avoided speaking about politics because that was a limit I placed on myself when I began this 'blog. The time has come to bend if not break that self-imposed restriction. As catalogers, we try to provide access to materials. Our discussions...
- Spyware
AdAware 6 has been released. It willscan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that...