LFI Course Materials 4/Week two

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Week 2: Privacy in the Library Pt. 2

Overview

This week 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
  • Learn to take a critical look at library privacy policies
  • Learn about vendors and data brokers

Readings

Guest lecturer

Guest Lecturer TBD

Discussion

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)
  • 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