"Privacy is dead, get over it" [updated]

I believe it was in 1999 that Scott McNealy famously said "privacy is dead, get over it". It is a whole lot deader now than it was then. A month ago in Researcher Privacy I discussed Sam Kome's CNI talk about the surveillance abilities of institutional network technology such as central wireless and access proxies. There's so much more to report on privacy that below the fold there can't be more than some suggested recent readings, as an update to my 6-month old post Open Access and Surveillance. [See a major update at the end]

The Orphans of Scholarship

This is the third of my posts from CNI's Spring 2017 Membership Meeting. Predecessors are Researcher Privacy and Research Access for the 21st Century.

Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson and Martin Klein's To the Rescue of the Orphans of Scholarly Communication reported on an important Mellon-funded project to investigate how all the parts of a research effort that appear on the Web other than the eventual article might be collected for preservation using Web archiving technologies. Below the fold, a summary of the 67-slide deck and some commentary.

Research Access for the 21st Century

This is the second of my posts from CNI's Spring 2017 Membership Meeting. The first is Researcher Privacy.

Resource Access for the 21st Century, RA21 Update: Pilots Advance to Improve Authentication and Authorization for Content by Elsevier's Chris Shillum and Ann Gabriel reported on the effort by the oligopoly publishers to replace IP address authorization with Shibboleth. Below the fold, some commentary.

Researcher Privacy

The blog post I was drafting about the sessions I found interesting at the CNI Spring 2017 Membership Meeting got too long, so I am dividing it into a post per interesting session. First up, below the fold, perhaps the most useful breakout session. Sam Kome's Protect Researcher Privacy in the Surveillance Era, an updated version of his talk at the 2016 ALA meeting, led to animated discussion.