Sentences with phrase «reader privacy»
Today, the tools and platforms that enable user access to digital content put reader privacy in peril.
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For libraries, protection of reader privacy is a core value, and they routinely break the connection between borrower and book as soon as the book has been returned.
New Jersey Passes New Reader Privacy Act, Expanding Laws to Cover eBooks — New Jersey just became the third US state (along with California and Arizona) to pass a law that extends library patron privacy to digital books.
An Explorer's Heart values reader privacy.
In fact, it suggests that this revenue model allows for more reader privacy than the old advertising model: «traditional online ads can collect far more information about who you are based on the information on your computer.»
Unlike Amazon, Pages & Pages, he said, also «support local schools, pay taxes in Australia, employ local people, give Mosman Village character, respect readers privacy, none of which Amazon does.»
Marsh says that e-readers gave the erotic fiction market a huge boost, because it gave readers some privacy about their reading habits.
We've just posted an Ibis Reader Privacy Checklist, a set of informal answers to the questions and issues raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation «s February paper: Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers.
A few years ago, California instituted the «reader privacy act,» which made it harder for law enforcement agencies to collect information on consumers» digital reading records from e-book retailers.
An Explorer's Heart values reader privacy.
In fact, it suggests that this revenue model allows for more reader privacy than the old advertising model: ``
Privacy and Accessibility Digital books: a new chapter for reader privacy.
On a related note, in my former life as a lawyer I spent many a day drafting website privacy policies (and, yeah, that's almost as fun as it sounds), so I'm very sensitive to reader privacy.
As you know, reader privacy is a key tenet for librarians.
We expect that those two tenets will allow us to continue, not to change, our track record of respecting patron and reader privacy.
«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.
Courts have long recognized that reader privacy must be protected to avoid a chilling effect on freedom of expression, as well as to maintain consumer trust.
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.
California Senator Leland Yee has introduced the Reader Privacy Act of 2011 (SB 602), with backing from the California Affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
«Indeed, in 2011 EFF and a coalition of companies and public interest groups helped pass the Reader Privacy Act, which requires the government and civil litigants to demonstrate a compelling interest in obtaining reader records and show that the information contained in those records can not be obtained by less intrusive means.
With the October 2 enactment of California's Reader Privacy Act, confidentiality seemed to gain an additional toehold.
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.
Librarian in Black blogger Sarah Houghton believes (YouTube video, includes language NSFW) that the Reader Privacy Act might even make it illegal for California libraries to loan Kindle ebooks through OverDrive.
«E-reader technology presents significant new threats to reader privacy.