I’ve been invited to live­blog and solicit ques­tions for an Annual Con­fer­ence ses­sion about a newish ALA grant project designed to edu­cate the pub­lic about pri­vacy rights. More info will be up soon at their site, Pri­vacy Rev­o­lu­tion, but for now, they have a top-notch panel speak­ing about this sub­ject at Annual (Cory Doc­torow, Dan Roth from Wired, and Beth Givens, the direc­tor of the Pri­vacy Rights Clear­ing­house), and they’re solic­it­ing ques­tions from those who can’t attend the ses­sion. If noth­ing else, there is a sur­vey avail­able on the site that they’re hop­ing you’ll take in order to col­lect data about infor­ma­tion pri­vacy poli­cies and practices.

Jes­samyn West has a longer expla­na­tion on Librarian.net, and I think it’s prob­a­bly eas­ier if every­one just posts their ques­tions there, although I will def­i­nitely ask any rel­e­vant ques­tions posted here, too. If you’ll be at the con­fer­ence, we’ll be in room 201D in the con­ven­tion cen­ter from 1:30–3:30pm on Sun­day, so please join us.

As soon as there is more info about the project avail­able online, I’ll post a note about it here. I’m hop­ing good things will come from this, as I think this coun­try needs to have a seri­ous and frank debate about pri­vacy issues, and I believe libraries are a good forum for this.

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