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RE: Privacy and the Google settlement (long, sorry)

Baby and the bath water.  Privacy is a very big issue, and I hope we find a
way to deal with this, and find it soon.  But there is a difference between
personal information and information on user behavior that can be used to
assess product features, which in turn can be fed back into the product
development cycle.  Disclosing all information is repugnant, disclosing no
information give us no chance to learn and grow.

Joe Esposito


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:14 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Privacy and the Google settlement (long, sorry)

It seems to me that through the use of technological measures such as
implementing proxy servers, libraries could go a long way towards protecting
patron privacy with respect to Google Books, settlement agreement or no
settlement agreement.

Time to put up or shut up?

I've written up a summary of Tuesday's panel at the New York Public Library
at

http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-books-settlement-agreement-
panel.html

Eric Hellman
President, Gluejar, Inc.
Montclair, NJ 07042
eric@hellman.net
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/