Librarians as Advocates for Social Media Privacy

Authors

Sarah Lamdan, CUNY School of LawFollow

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

Spring 5-8-2015

Affiliation

CUNY School of Law

Abstract

Librarians must continue their traditional roles as privacy rights activists and intellectual freedom upholders into the digital age, and across electronic information sources, including social media fora. Social media is quickly becoming a major source of information and center for information seeking, and librarians have an opportunity to promote and help shape social media policies that protect users’ privacy and assure that users can seek information without inhibition. One way librarians can be involved in the promotion of online privacy is by joining the social media user rights movement and advocating terms of use agreements that protect information seekers that follow the "Privacy by Design" model created by Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.

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This presentation was given as part of the 2015 LACUNY Institute.