Tag: Privacy


  • Stupid Email Disclaimers (tags: netiquette email privacy law) The Open Library (tags: books library copyright literature reference)

  • Early in the history of the WWW, people thought a document which did not have an inbound link, a link from some external location to the file, was private. Search engines looked for content on web sites in locations for which there was not a link already pointing. To truly respect the privacy of those…

  • Maybe this is my stint working in a library back as a college student. There were some shady folks who came into the library to look up pictures of women with huge, obviously fake breasts. Plus the gutteral laugh at the ones where each had twice the volume of the woman’s head. They did this…

  • Bloggers Need Not Apply delves into a search committee’s use of personal web sites and blogs to scare them away from hiring candidates.