Welcome to Choose Privacy Week!
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Choose Privacy Week is an initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.
The American Library Association (ALA) has developed a variety of resources to help libraries reach out to their communities. We hope you will explore this site to learn more about what your community can do to spark thought and discussion around privacy issues today. Whether you are considering creating a display, sponsoring a contest, hosting a program or workshop, or moderating a community dialogue about privacy, we have tools that can help!
Choose Privacy Week begins on May 1, 2012!
Choose Privacy Week begins next week (May 1 – 7, 2012), and the ALA is offering numerous resources to help libraries take part, including online programming, a series of blog posts and a brand-new new video documentary.
From April 25 through April 27, the ALA will release three brief online presentations that explore the growing impact of surveillance on our civil liberties. Each presentation is designed to help librarians better understand how government agencies and corporations are collecting, storing and using data about individuals' daily lives. These presentations will be posted on privacyrevolution.org, and can be used to guide library program planning or can be shared with the community during Choose Privacy Week:
Welcome to Choose Privacy Week!
Welcome to Choose Privacy Week!
Choose Privacy Week will take place May 1-7, 2012 and is an ongoing program of the American Library Association.
Choose Privacy Week is an initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.
Privacy Awareness Week 2012
Privacy Awareness Week 2012
Download and print this poster to promote the APPA youth-resources!
Do you ever wonder how you can you protect your privacy rights as an individual? Or consider your privacy responsibilities when you handle the personal information of others?
Privacy Awareness Week 2012 runs from 29 April to 5 May and is all about promoting awareness about privacy rights and responsibilities in the community.
Privacy Awareness Week is a jointly promoted annual event of the members of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities forum.
EU-U.S. Joint Statement on Data Protection by European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding and U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson
Today's High Level Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, held simultaneously in Washington, DC and Brussels with the participation of Vice-President Viviane Reding and Secretary John Bryson, represents an important opportunity to deepen our transatlantic dialogue on commercial data privacy issues. The United States and the European Union clearly share a commitment to promoting the rights of individuals to have their personal data protected and to facilitating interoperability of our commercial data privacy regimes.
Obama Administration Calls for “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights”
The Obama administration unveiled plans to protect the privacy of Internet users today. The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights outlines principles that the administration expects Internet companies to adopt, even if legislation isn't passed.
A Review of Google’s New Privacy Policy
As of March 1, 2012, Google officially combined privacy policies from more than 60 of its services to a single privacy policy. In doing so, Google is now able to take information from users who are logged-in to its products and services and store them into a database.
Google responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries
Google has responded to Congress, defending its decision to make a controversial change to its privacy policy.
In a 13-page letter (document) to several Congress members, Google explained its decision for changing its privacy policy, and answered a host of questions posed by the lawmakers after the search giant announced its plans.
PRIVACY PAPERS FOR POLICY MAKERS 2011
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) invites privacy scholars and authors with an interest in privacy issues to submit papers to be considered for FPF’s second edition of “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers.”
FCC and FTC holds Location-Based Services Forum
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is holding a public forum on privacy concerns about cell phones and their ability to track the location of users.
The forum is being held between 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT at the FCC Headquarters, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington DC 20554.
Audio/video coverage of the meeting will be broadcast live with open captioning over the Internet from the FCC’s web page at www.fcc.gov/live. The FCC’s webcast is free to the public. Those who watch the live video stream of the event may email event-related questions to livequestions@fcc.gov. Depending on the volume of questions and time constraints, the panel moderators will work to respond to as many questions as possible during the workshop.
