Sentences with phrase «reader privacy act»
Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Reader Privacy Act extends, as of January 1, 2012, the confidentiality afforded to library patron's reading records into the for - profit world of booksellers.
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/
With the October 2 enactment of California's Reader Privacy Act, confidentiality seemed to gain an additional toehold.
The Reader Privacy Act updates state law to safeguard the free exchange of ideas and open discourse by ensuring that government and third parties can not access Californians» reading records without proper justification.
Her basic issue is that librarians should always protect their customers» reading history, but now Amazon's getting that data on their own servers (which may even violate California's newly - passed «Reader Privacy Act.»)
«The Reader Privacy Act will help Californians protect their personal information whether they use new digital book services or their corner bookstore,» said Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Not exact matches
One state has already passed a privacy act of sorts for readers that prevents ebook retailers from turning over information on reading data to law enforcement agencies.
The Sample Cover Sheet Templates tells the reader what business the privacy act is for.