Reader Privacy: Should Library Privacy Standards Apply in the Digital World?

By Cathy Packer on January 22, 2010 in

Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/22/2010
8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Location
Room 4085, UNC School of Law

John Palfrey

As reading expands from a world of print publications to electronic formats, can and should we retain traditional notions of reader privacy? Just what is the privacy we have come to expect as readers of books, and do these notions of privacy translate effectively in the world of Google Book Search, the Kindle, the Sony Reader — or to the many pages of text we read online daily?

Keynote Speaker John Palfrey, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources and Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, introduced a discussion about these issues of the policy and law of reader privacy.

Two panels of speakers explored whether special protection for readers of library books merit recognition in the electronic environment. Speakers included Jane Horvath, Global Privacy Counsel for Google Inc.; Andrew McDiarmid, Policy Analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology; Lili Levi, Professor of Law at the University of Miami; Annie Anton, Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University and Director of ThePrivacyPlace.org; Paula J. Bruening, Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams LLP; and Anne Klinefelter, Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina.

Moderators are Bill Marshall, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina, and David Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer at Intel Corporation.

This event was held in honor of Data Privacy Day 2010.

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