I’m very excited that I am going to be spending a week in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, this September to talk about some topics…
Privacy
Announcement
New Year, New Talks
I am very honoured and excited to have had a number of talks accepted and been asked to join panels at four upcoming conferences…
Privacy
Article: How to read a privacy policy in a post-GDPR world
The Verge did a great job with a quick summation video of what to look for in a privacy policy when reviewing, hopefully before…
Library
It All Comes Down to Trust!
In reading Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe’s (@lisalibrarian) article, What Will You Do When They Come for Your Proxy Server? on Scholarly Kitchen this morning, a…
Library
Upcoming Privacy Talk at ALA Midwinter 2018
If you are going to be in Denver in early February, then please consider attending my next talk at ALA Midwinter on Saturday 10…
Information Security
How-to: Block Telemetry from Windows 10
My son has a BootCamp partition on his MacBook Pro to let him play one of his favourite games that had originally claimed to…
Information Security
On-Demand Video from ALA Annual 2017
Thanks to the social media team at ProQuest, my talk from ALA Annual 2017 entitled “Privacy is the Future: The Library’s Role as Educator,…
Privacy
FCC/FTC Op-Ed Rebuttal: It Comes Down to Trust
This evening, the acting chair of the FTC and the newly appointed chair of the FCC jointly published an op-ed piece in the Washington…
Privacy
Be Careful What You Browse From Home (It’s About To Be Up For Sale)
There has long been advised that using things like Incognito Mode and clearing your cookies and opting out of advertising preferences will help keep your…
Information Security
HTTPS Everywhere (Really) Starts Today!
Today is the day. It has been talked about for a while, but I think that today is the day that it really starts…