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Dear Amelia,

I share your concern about the issue of patron privacy in online environments, and I hope you will find the following presentations helpful. They are a 2-part plenary from UKSG conference 2018:

Privacy and the library patron: an ongoing ethical challenge by David McMenemy

Privacy and the library patron: an ongoing ethical challenge by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, London School of Economics and Political Science

Seeta's talk features the Data Privacy Project https://dataprivacyproject.org/about/ which has a US focus.

A couple of years ago (and in a different job), I wrote a blog post about EBSCO EDS and Single Sign-On https://darkarchive.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/eds-and-sso/ which is similar to the problem you're examining now - it's great that you are asking these questions and not just waving it through without considering the implications. Keep up the good work :)

All the best,

Laura

Laura J. Wilkinson

Education Manager, Crossref

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On 6 September 2018 at 14:52, Jasmine Hide <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Amelia,

I couldn’t help you with the specifics of your query, but as you asked if there are any groups working on privacy, I have found this a useful resource if you haven’t already heard of them: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/

They’re American based but the resources nevertheless inform practice in the UK. I’m not sure if there is UK involvement but I’d be interested to hear of anything happening over here.

Kind regards,

Jasmine

Jasmine Hide

Copyright and Licensing Specialist

Library Services | University of Birmingham | Edgbaston | Birmingham | B15 2TT

(0121) 414 2212

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From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:LIS-E-RESOURCES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Amelia Mowry
Sent: 06 September 2018 13:45
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Subject: [lis-e-resources] Privacy and Authentication in E-Resources

We recently received a communication from a vendor suggesting that they may soon move away from IP authentication and require individual logins/user accounts that would, I believe, allow individual users to be identified and tracked. (I'm not naming the vendor here, mainly because I believe this is an issue much larger than a single vendor.)

Does anyone know if there are library groups working on the issue of patron privacy in online environments? I would really like to get involved. As a profession, we've always valued protecting patron privacy. Not only could this violate that, but it could do it in a way patrons cannot see or prevent.

Thank you,

Amelia Mowry

Metadata & Discovery Services Librarian

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan

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