Scott Leslie
Creating an alternate reality since 1969
Privacy Matters...?
BC Libraries Conference 2016
Scott Leslie, BC Libraries Cooperative
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Is there a problem?
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Are we the ones to fix it?
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How?
1. Is there a problem?
Online Privacy Threats
- Criminals, hackers
- State - National security, Law enforcement
- Commercial Entities
- ISPs, employers, schools...libraries
- Peers, family
- Random Internet Strangers
2014 Survey of Canadians on Privacy
by Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Subtitle
https://www.priv.gc.ca/information/por-rop/2015/por_2014_12_e.asp
Pew Study "State of Privacy in America" late 2015
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/01/20/the-state-of-privacy-in-america/
Open Media's crowdsourced "Canada's Privacy Plan"
https://privacyplan.ca/executive-summary
Three key concerns that Canadians want to see addressed in order to tackle our privacy deficit:
- Warrantless access to personal information
- Widespread dragnet surveillance of entire populations
- Insufficient oversight and accountability of surveillance activities
2. Are we the ones to fix it?
Yes. Maybe.
https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/19016
eBook Security Evaluation
Matthew Reidsma
April 29, 2016
https://matthew.reidsrow.com/worknotes/177
3. How
It can't just be one approach, the problem's too big
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Education
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Advocacy
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Service Innovation
Education
- Mozilla's "Easy ways to protect your online privacy and educate others" https://blog.webmaker.org/privacy
- EFF's Surveillance Self-Defence - https://ssd.eff.org/
- CryptoParty - https://www.cryptoparty.in/
Advocacy
Service Innovation
- In-branch
- Various plugins to stop tracking, profiling
- TOR browser on the desktop
- If you don't need to know it, don't ask or store it
- Privacy Infrastructure
- TOR exit nodes
- VPNs
"Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
Subtitle
Edward Snowden
Further Reading
- Adam Chandler, "Patron Privacy in a Surveillance State," https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/36316
- Mike Robinson, "Library Privacy & Commercial Surveillance"
http://www.consortiumlibrary.org/blogs/mcrobinson
/files/2016/04/patron_privacy_pla.pdf - Soshana Zuboff, "The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism," http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshana-zuboff-secrets-of-surveillance-capitalism-14103616-p2.html
Privacy Matters?
By Scott Leslie
Privacy Matters?
brief presentation as part of Privacy Matters panel at BC Library Conference, 2016
