LFI 2024/Month 2

Month 2: Privacy in the Library

• Real time lecture: Friday June 21 2-4PM Eastern / 11-1PM Pacific on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892

Overview

This month we'll discuss library privacy policies, the data lifecycle, and how privacy law plays a role in libraries. We will also discuss vendors and data brokers.

Learning objectives

• Threat modeling
• Learn about the data lifecycle in libraries
• Library privacy policies
• Learn about vendors and data brokers

Readings

NEED LIBRARY SPECIFIC VENDOR READINGS

• Data Lifecycles privacy advocacy guide
• NISO Privacy Principles
• Library Policy Template
• ALA Library Privacy Guidelines
• Library Privacy and Vendor Management: A Privacy Oriented Overview of the Vendor Relationship Lifecycle
• ALA Library Privacy Checklists
• Protecting Patron Privacy: Librarians, Vendors, and Patrons Each Have a Role to Play
• EFF’s How to Assess Vendors’ Data Security

Guest lecturer

Sarah Lamdan

Discussion

NEED TO REVISE QUESTIONS TO INCLUDE THREAT MODELING ETC DISCUSSION OF MONTH ONE READINGS DISCUSSION OF THREAT MODELING

Policy Questions:

• How does your library's policy (or the policy you chose) measure up to the best practices? (Note: you don't have to identify the library in the discussion)
• How can you use threat modeling to create more robust/holistic privacy policies at your institution?
• What challenges might you face trying to update your library's policy to meet best practices? Implementation? Enforcement? Making the policy a priority at all?

Vendor Questions:

• Where do you see opportunities for resisting or challenging the vendor practices we discussed today?
• What are small, harm reduction steps?
• What are starting points for bigger action?
• What are the challenges to standing up to these vendor practices?

Tasks

• Lecture, readings, and answer discussion questions in Discord