Additional Resources

ToS;DR summarizes the terms of service for several popular sites and services like Amazon, Wikipedia, PayPal, CNN, and Reddit, and provides privacy grades for each service. This is a great resource to share with students and faculty as they consider what sources they use for every-day information needs.

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https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage

Dorothea Salo is a librarian and an instructor at UW-Madison's iSchool who specializes in privacy, research-data management, digital preservation, and scholarly communication. Her website includes several blogposts related to privacy and data-sharing.

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https://dsalo.info/

The Library Freedom Project provides free crash courses and resources on privacy for librarians who are committed to social justice values. It is affiliated with the Tor Project, a Seattle-based research-education nonprofit. 

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https://libraryfreedom.org/

This page contains several PDFs to privacy-related instruction plans that librarians can implement in their classrooms. The lessons require students to analyze risks in given scenarios like online shopping or online dating, and then asks them how to reduce those risks. Lesson plan also include teaching students how to use privacy-protecting tools such as password managers and browser extensions.

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https://osf.io/urmy9/

This podcast has a couple of episodes discussing privacy policies and the politics surrounding them. Check out these episodes: "Privacy or Profit--Why Not Both?," "The 'Privacy Policy' Policy," and "The Surveillance Economy." Share this with students who may be interested in learning more about privacy in their personal life. 

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https://irlpodcast.org/

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Check out this article for some important information on tech companies that have deals to share patron information with ICE. The article discusses the #NoTechforICE campaign and steps that have been taken to challenge these alliances. 

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https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/aclu-calls-on-tech-companies-to-end-their-alliance-with-ice-and-cbp/ 

We compiled links to privacy policies from several publishing organizations: 

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• The Committee on Publication Ethics

  • https://publicationethics.org/privacy 

• The Society of Scholarly Publishing

  • https://www.sspnet.org/admin/ssp-privacy-policy/ 

• The Directory of Open Access Journals

  • https://doaj.org/privacy/ 

• The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers

  • https://www.stm-assoc.org/site-information/privacy-statement/ 

• The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

  • https://oaspa.org/privacy-statement/#:~:text=In%20the%20case%20of%20communications,our%20updates%20at%20any%20time.