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In defence of internet anonymity
Image c/o Thomas Hawk. It recently emerged that Twitter has added the need to register mobile phone numbers as part of the sign-up procedure when creating an account to use the network. The move is, as...
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Radical Librarians and creating a new LIS qualification…
Image taken on Newman Street, London (c/o man_with_beard on Flickr). Yesterday I went to the monthly radical librarians gathering in London (held at LARC – follow @rlc_se!). This time around we were...
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GCHQ and American attitudes to surveillance…
(Image c/o Christian Payne on Flickr.) From Wired: GCHQ’s hacking operations are conducted with little to no oversight and risk “undermining the security of the internet”, leading online privacy...
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Net neutrality – internet that serves the many or the few?
Original image Backbone Campaign on Flickr. Used under a CC-BY licence edited with filter. The issue of net neutrality has been rumbling around in the United States for sometime now. For many years...
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How “austerity” will exacerbate the effects of the digital divide
Image c/o Derek Bruff on Flickr. During the last parliament, the Coalition government introduced a number of changes to the benefits system, one of the key changes for the unemployed was the...
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Vandr – what is it and why should we take notice of it?
Image c/o Neo_II on Flickr (cc-by) The following article was written for Information Today Europe, my thanks for permission to re-share the article here. Digital natives. It’s a phrase that’s been...
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Why are Barclays in our libraries?
Canary Wharf from Greenland Dock, 30 seconds by tubb on Flickr. License – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.In many respects, having a pop at the banks is a bit of a case of “low hanging fruit”…but in the case of...
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The permanence of corporate surveillance
Image c/o Barbara Friedman on Flickr. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the nature of surveillance now as compared to how it operated in the pre-internet era (if we can even imagine such an era...
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Barclays and the library marketing opportunity
Image c/o MattJP on Flickr (cc-by) Just before Christmas I wrote a post questioning why Barclays are in our libraries. Somewhat alarmed by the invasion of a public space by a corporate entity, I was...
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How do we support the development of privacy literacy?
What role can/should librarians and libraries play in ensuring privacy literacy? (Image c/o Karol Franks on Flickr.) In “The digital divide in the post-Snowden era” I explored the extent to which...
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